Kenzo Takada

Kenzo love for fashion developed at an early age, especially through reading her sisters' magazines. He just attended the University of Kobe, where it was boring and eventually withdrew, against the wishes of his family. In 1958, she joined the school of fashion, Tokyo Bunka Fashion College, which then had only opened its doors to male students.
mAfter obtaining his diploma, he settled in Paris in 1964, is not without problems of adaptation. He is trying to win a place in the environment of fashion, attending shows, making contacts with the media and sale of sketches.
Kenzo designs of the first started because he could only afford to buy their fabrics flea sales. Most of these tissues are scraps, the remains of baskets sewing grandmothers. As a result of mixing Kenzo there were many brave fabrics together to make a dress.
Kenzo success began in 1970: this year presented his first exhibition at the Gallery Vivienne, his first store, "Jungle Jap" was opened, and one of its models appeared on the cover of ELLE. His collection was introduced in New York and Tokyo in 1971. The following year, he won the Club of Japan Fashion Editor prize. Kenzo demonstrated their sense of the dramatic appearance when, in 1978 and 1979, took shown in a circus tent, and end with the performers horsewomen uniform and transparent himself riding an elephant.
His first collection of men was launched in 1983. In 1988, his wife began with the line of perfumes Kenzo Kenzo, Parfum d'été, Le monde est beau and L'eau de Kenzo. Kenzo pour Homme was his first fragrance for men (1991).