Japanese people affected by the disappearance of fashion designer Kenzo Takada

Kenzo in Himeji, Japan in June 1989. Kurita KAKU / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

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The death in Paris, the aftermath of the Covid-19, of the Japanese fashion designer Kenzo arouses great emotion in his native country.

Politicians, the governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike, but above all Kenzo's stylist friends and fashion lovers pay tribute to him, the day after his disappearance in France at the age of 81. 

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From our correspondent in Tokyo,

Japanese television channels devoted a good part of their programs from morning to night to the

.

He was one of the very first Japanese stylists to establish himself in Paris and other Western fashion capitals.

And the Japanese are still very proud of it, almost chauvinistic today.

“

,” said government secretary general Katsunobu Kato.

Very solicited by television channels, very moved, Junko Koshino

cannot believe in the death of his friend Kenzo.

They had studied together in the early 1960s at the same Bunka Gakuen fashion school in Tokyo.

In the land of the kimono, the two designers have successfully combined Western influences and the meticulous language of traditional Japanese clothing, according to Junko Koshino.

And to add that by their exuberance, they even stood out from Western designers.

On Japanese social networks, the disappearance of Kenzo arouses great emotion.

"

", we can read for example on Twitter.

Kenzo remains a source of inspiration for our students, notes the Bunka Gakuen fashion school.

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