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Kendzo Takada (Kenzo Takada)
Kendzo Takada (Kenzo Takada)

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2020: Death from COVID-19 coronavirus

On October 4, 2020 at the age of 81 year the Japanese fashion designer and the designer Kenzo Takada who founded Kenzo fashion house died. Takada died in the Parisian hospital of the complications caused by COVID-19 coronavirus.

Kendzo Takada was born in 1939 in the suburb of Osaka, in the 1965th he emigrated to France. He became the first Japanese fashion designer who gained the world fame in Paris. The brand of the Japanese dizaneyr of Kenzo was based in the 1970th.

Distinctive element of style of fashion house of Takada is use of bright graphic prints. Besides, perfumery which was also produced by Takada's brand became this hit.

Kendzo Takada, the author of nearly 8 thousand design concepts, did not cease to like a fashion and art to live, the representative of fashion house noted.

The mayor of Paris Ann Hidalgo so commented on Takada's death on the Twitter blog:

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The fashion designer of improbable talent, it brought light and color in a fashion. Paris mourns one of the sons.
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In the 1970th when it began, I was an admirer of a brand. I think, he was a great designer, - the head of LVMH Sidney Toledano noted.
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The brand of Kenzo was sold to LVMH Moët Hennessy company - Louis Vuitton in 1993. Takada continued to work in fashion house till 1999, did not announce the leaving the company yet. After that the designer worked on separate projects.

Takada was known for the shining smile and naughty mood, some of the most popular expressions of the designer are:

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The fashion is as food, it is impossible to go in cycles in the same menu.
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Fashion not for favorites - it for all. It should not be too serious.
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The creative director of Kenzo Felipe Oliveira Baptista wrote in the Instagram blog about Kendzo:

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Its surprising energy, kindness, talent and smile were infectious. Its related spirit will live forever.[1]
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