Word: kenzo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dues-paying members) in Japan but has won converts and mounted shows from Moscow to Milan, Manhattan to Paris (where Sofu was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor). Last week in Tokyo he formally opened his school's eleven-story headquarters building, designed by Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange. It overlooks the palace of Crown Prince Akihito, whose family has traditionally been a patron of the flower...
...Rykiel, Kenzo, et al. design clothing that makes women appear as if they doubt their sexual identity and must bare their breasts to prove to the world that they are women. Either this or it is once again apparent that the designers do not like women and do whatever is necessary to make them look garish and foolish...
...Kenzo Takada also scored a major breakthrough with his new collection. One of the originators of the Mao-now, peasant-chic look several years back, Japanese-born Kenzo, 38, has moved out of the Orient with clothes that suggest rollicking pirates (some of his models even wore black eyepatch-es), swashbuckling naval officers, and the Indians of the Raj, decked out in white duck and Nehru caps. Kenzo also displayed some opulent evening wear, notably a blue gown that exposed the model's left breast. (Who needs jewelry?) His fabrics?including linens and striped cottons?are more refined...
...designer leading the way is Japanese-born Kenzo Takada, 37. In his winter collection shown last April, Kenzo, as he calls himself, experimented with long, blousy sweaters meant to be worn over tights or leg warmers. Growing bolder this season, he has whipped up short gathered skirts topped with floral-print smocks. The motif is Tahitian-Polynesian, and Kenzo tops it off with aloha leis...
...single designer speaks for the American look. None of the Americans, for example, as cunningly and consistently divines what women crave as France's Yves St. Laurent; none shows the innovative brilliance of such younger Parisian stars as Japanese-born Kenzo Takada. Fashion historians will probably look back not on any individual but on American designer-entrepreneurs in general as the School of the '70s-and a very savvy school at that...