Kenzo Takada adds an opera-style legacy
Kenzo Takada adds an opera-style legacy Paris – In the winter of 1964, Japan was still celebrating its first Tokyo Olympics, and Kenzo Takada slipped during a six-week trip to France. The 25-year-old young designer has achieved some success in his home, including winning the 1961 Soen Award and holding a designer position at Sanai Department Store. Inspired by emerging high-end fashion designers at the time, such as Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld, he chose to move to France and became one of the first Japanese designers to settle in Paris. This is not easy. He had to overcome the prejudice described at the time as an Asian in the creative industry, and then gradually showed sketches to department stores, fashion journalists and galleries, which gradually attracted people's attention and established a reputation, and eventually opened his own small in New York. Boutiques. 1970. Shortly after the launch of the first women's collection, Takada's kimono-sty...