Kenzo Takada

Biography

Kenzo Takada, born on February 27, 1939, in Himeji, Japan, is one of the designers who most profoundly influenced Parisian fashion in the second half of the 20th century. Born into a large family, he developed a passion for his sisters' fashion magazines at a very young age, while initially studying foreign languages ​​at Kobe University before abandoning everything for design. In 1958, he enrolled at the Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo, which had just opened its doors to boys, where in 1961 he won the prestigious Soen Award and designed dozens of looks a month for a department store, already honing his sense of color and rhythm. In the mid-1960s, compensation for the demolition of his apartment offered him the perfect opportunity to travel to Europe, and he embarked on a long sea voyage that eventually took him to Paris, where he arrived on January 1, 1965. Initially disconcerted by a city he found austere, he was quickly captivated by its energy and history, and decided to make his ...