Word: takada
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Yoshiyuki Takada, 31, one of five performers of Sankai Juku, a Japanese troupe whose unique and disturbing works combine avant-garde and folk-dance movements; during an outdoor performance in which Takada and three others were being lowered upside down from a roof to suggest childbirth, when his rope broke and he plunged 80 ft. to the ground; in Seattle. The group canceled the remainder of its ten-city U.S. tour...
Yamamoto, 39, spent a little time in Paris during the late 1960s, absorbing European influences and watching the growing impact of his countryman Kenzo Takada, 43, on the insular enclave of French fashion. The whimsically heretical Kenzo and the silkenly elegant haute couturière Hanae Mori, 57, were the first Japanese designers to have any visibility or impact outside their own country, and both had to leave home and establish bases of operation in Paris or New York City to do it. Japanese fashion was not a force then. It was really more like a curiosity, and Yamamoto returned...