Kenzo Takada

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Kenzo Takada (Takada Kenzo), a Japanese-French fashion designer, is a member of the Royal Academy of Textile Design Kenzo Takada.

He is also the founder of Kenzo, a worldwide brand of perfumes, skincare, and clothing, as well as the acting Honorary President of the Asian Couture Federation.

Early life

Takada was born in Himeji, Hygo Prefecture, on February 27th. He was one of seven children of Kenji and Shizu Takada, who ran a hotel. His passion for fashion began at an early age, especially through reading his siblings' magazines. He briefly attended Kobe City University of Foreign Studies in 1957. However, after his father died during Takada's first year as a student, he withdrew from the program in defiance of his family's wishes. In 1958, he enrolled at Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo, which had then just opened its doors to male students. 122 During his time in Bunka, Takada won the Soen Award, a fashion design competition, where he created up to 40 outfits a month as a girl's clothing designer.

Takada was inspired by Paris, and particularly designer Yves Saint Laurent. His interest in Paris was boosted by his tutor at Bunka, Chie Koike, who was educated at L'École de la Société de la Couture par la Couture, Parisienne. 113 : 142 In preparations for the 1964 Summer Olympics, the government demolished Takada's apartment, giving him some monetary compensation. Takada travelled from Beijing to Paris on a month-long journey by sea, stopping in various cities like Hong Kong, Saigon, Mumbai, and Marseille, under his mentor's guidance and using his compensation funds. On January 1, 1965, he finally arrived at the Gare de Lyon train station. Takada's first impression of Paris was that it was "dismal and bleak," but as his taxi drove him past the Notre Dame de Paris, which he described as "impressive."

Personal life and death

Takada was in a relationship with French architect Xavier de Castella, who died in August 1990 from an AIDS-related disease. De Castella assisted in the construction of Takada's 1,300-square-foot (14,000-square-foot) Japanese-style house, which began in 1987 and was completed in 1993.

While hospitalized at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine during the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Takada died on October 4th, 2020, from COVID-19 complications. He was 81 years old at the time.

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Fashion career

Takada began exhibiting sketch of designs to fashion houses for 25 F each. After a few months, he had intended to leave Paris for Japan but vowed not to do so until he had created something there, but he didn't want to open a boutique fashion store in a location where his peers hadn't opened one. Takada worked as a stylist at a textile company named Pisanti during this period.

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Takada was at a flea market in 1970 when she discovered a woman who wanted to rent a small space in the Galerie Vivienne to him cheaply. Takada accepted the challenge and opened a shop as a designer. With little money to work with, he mixed and matched $200 in fabrics from Montmartre's Saint Pierre market, resulting in an eclectic and bold first fashion collection. At his first fashion preview at the Galerie Vivienne, Takada unveiled the collection. With no money to hire professional fashion models for the occasion, Takada and his colleagues decided to paint the pimples of an acne-covered model green.

Takada's interior was inspired by painter Henri Rousseau's, especially The Dream. The designer wanted to blend the jungle look with his roots, so he decided to name his first store "Jungle Jap." The store's name was not without controversy: on his first visit to Takada in 1971, the Japanese American Citizens League sent a summons to Takada, asking him to delete the word "Jap" from his business's name. The state supreme court upheld the right to use the term as part of a trademark the following year. When Takada returned to France, Takada and his staff renamed the brand.

Takada's efforts paid off quickly: Elle published one of his designs on its front page in June 1970. 117 In 1970, he migrated from Galerie Vivienne to Passage Choiseul. In 1971, Takada's collection was seen in New York City and Tokyo. He received the Fashion Editor Club of Japan's award next year. He made perhaps his biggest contribution to fashion in 1973-74 by leading a silhouette change, loosening, and increasing the number of the popular peasant styles of the time to produce what came to be the main high fashion trend of the 1970s, during which he was credited with a string of major trends. Takada's flagship store, Kenzo, opened in Place des Victoires, in October 1976. When Takada appeared in 1978 and 1979, he held his shows in a circus tent, concluding with horsewomen wearing transparent uniforms and one of an elephant. Also had the opportunity to direct a film named Yume, yume no ato, which was released in 1981.

Takada's industry thrived in the 1980s. Kenzo's annual sales increased from 30,000,000 F in 1979 to 240,000,000 F in 1984. In 1983, Takada's first men's collection was introduced. The Limited Stores revealed in August 1984 that they had hired Takada to create Album by Kenzo, a less costly clothing line. In 1986, Kenzo Jungle, a children's line, as well as men's and women's jeans, was introduced.

Takada also ventured into perfumery. He first experimented with perfumes by releasing King Kong in 1980, which he created "purely for fun." Kenzo de Kenzo (now known as a Sent Beau), Parfum d'été, Le monde est beau, and L'eau par Kenzo began in 1988. Kenzo pour Homme was his first men's perfume (1991). FlowerbyKenzo, which was launched in 2000, was listed on Vogue's website as one of the finest classic French perfumes of all time. KenzoKI, a skincare line, was also launched in 2001.

The brand Kenzo has been owned by the French luxury goods firm LVMH since 1993. He created a perfume for Avon in 2016.

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Awards

• France: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres / Chevalier, 1984
• Japan: Medals of Honor / Medal with Purple Ribbon, 1999
• France: Legion of Honour / Chevalier, 2016