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.
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.
I just received some more exciting images from the publisher. Kenzo will be released in November 2010.
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