Japanese designer Kenzo Takada died in Paris on Sunday due to COVID-19-related complications.
He was 81.
Famous for his international luxury fashion house Kenzo, he inaugurated his flagship store in Paris' Place des Victoires in 1976.
A native of Himeji, Japan, over the next thirty years, Takada launched a perfume empire, and, in 1993, sold his brand to luxury conglomerate LVMH.
In 1999, he retired to pursue other creative pursuits.
In January of 2020, he launched his K-3 brand.