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Celebrating Kenzo's 40th Anniversary

The Italian designer Antonio Marras who took over the Kenzo house six years ago, revisited the past in a tribute to the brand's 40th Anniversary show. We could named this SS 2011 collection, a tale of two cultures, the first portion of the collection being quite different than the second one. The second portion was absolutely stunning. Each piece was artistically designed, long and ample dresses draped and decorated with a mix of nature and kimono prints, flowers and vivid colors, inspired by various ethnic elements, among them South East Asian, Mayan, Russian ...... with a bohemian feel.

Images courtesy Theschereport

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Kenzo Revisited

Pop Up book

Kenzo Takada in the first Kenzo shop in Galerie Vivienne, Paris 1970

1973 Winter collection, Stern magazine

Photo: Peter Knapp

1982 Winter show

Photo: Guy Marineau

Iman, 1983S Ad Campaign

Photo: Hans Feurer

2007 Winter Show

Photo: Patrice Stable

2008 Winter Show

Photo: Patrice Stable

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Kenzo, the book

In honor of "Paris Fashion Week,"an introduction to Kenzo, the first exhaustive book ever published to present forty years of the Paris-based fashion house, founded by Japanese designer Kenzo Takada and now revitalized under artistic director Antonio Marras. Established in 1970, Kenzo is one of the great French houses that transformed global fashion in the latter half of the twentieth century.
This lavish volume comes in a real fabric cover, available in three different patterns, and with a pop-up that evokes the romantic textiles, envelopes, and paper craft for which the house's fashion collection are known.
This book is truly an art object in and of itself.