Japanese designer Kenzo Takada, founder of Kenzo fashion house, dies of coronavirus. This was announced by the official representative of the designer.. Takada was 81, says Euronews.

Kenzo Takada dies in a hospital in France where he moved from Tokyo in 1965. In 1970, his first show of womenswear models in Paris generated great interest.. Fashion magazine ELLE has published one of the models from the Kenzo exhibition on its cover. After the first success, Kenzo Takada's career in the world of fashion quickly took off..

Success came to the fashion designer in 1970 - his first show of models for women in Paris aroused great interest, and fashion magazine ELLE published on its cover one of the models from the Kenzo exhibition. The next year, he presented his collection in New York and Tokyo, and a few years later he shocked the audience by staging a fashion show in a circus: Kenzo himself went to the arena on an elephant.

The main feature of the Kenzo fashion house is natural motives, bright colors, as well as a search for proportions and silhouettes.. In the 80s, this fashion house began to produce children's clothing, household goods and perfumes..

Takado Kenzo announced his retirement from the fashion house in 1999. Kenzo is now part of the LVMH concern, its creative directors are the founders of the New York brand Opening Ceremony Umberto Leon and Carroll Lim.