In fashion, those who make a mark are those who dare to go beyond convention. In ’70s Paris, it was Kenzo Takada. And today in 2020, the brand he left behind remains the benchmark for creating welcome fashion disruption.
From the beginning, he swayed from the norm. Financial Times reports on him saying of his career path, “Men weren’t allowed into design schools. Being creative was not accepted in Japanese society in the 1950s. And more than anything, my parents opposed the idea of me working in fashion.”
That didn’t stop him.
The fashion designer (who died in October) moved to the French capital from Japan, without knowing a word of the local language, in 1964. He started out w…
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