Fashion designer Kenzo dies in Paris of virus

Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, better known as Kenzo, died yesterday from Covid-19, his spokesman told several French media outlets.

Takada, 81, was being cared for at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-seine, a residential suburb on the western outskirts of the French capital, the spokesman said.

Kenzo, the house he founded in the Seventies, is owned by LVMH, the world’s biggest luxury goods group.