On Twitter and Instagram, the fashion world commemorates the late designer icon Kenzo Takada with loving words.
The fashion world mourns the loss of designer Kenzo Takada. On Instagram, the supermodel Naomi Campbell (50) said goodbye to the Japanese who died after a Covid-19 infection with the words: "So sad to hear of this loss … I will always remember your smile and yours Remember modesty. Your positivity blinded us all, "said Campbell. By farewell, she wished the designer: "Rest with the angels."
On Sunday evening, a spokesman for the designer announced that Kenzo Takada had died in a hospital in Paris at the age of 81. The Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo (61) also honored the founder of the Kenzo label on Twitter with the words: "What a designer." He gave color and light a place in fashion. The fashion critic Suzy Menkes also remembered "… how he told me that he wanted to make 'happy' clothes" and called him an "emblem of international fashion".
Other expressions of sadness came from the model Pat Cleveland (70): "He was such a happy soul and I will miss him so …" The designer Giambattista Valli (54) thanked him for teaching him "the generosity of shared happiness" to have. "I still dance with you and I will dedicate every happy moment to you," the friend and colleague continued. Takada was born in 1939 in a village near Himeji. He is considered the first Japanese fashion designer to make a name for himself in Paris.