2009年4月24日 星期五
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2009年3月18日 星期三
Image of kenzo
- a mixture of East and West
-an abundance of flowers
-a festival of colors
These elements are always can find in Kenzo's collections,retail shop,advertisement and other products.
-an abundance of flowers
-a festival of colors
These elements are always can find in Kenzo's collections,retail shop,advertisement and other products.
2009年3月17日 星期二
Kenzo Boutique In Paris
Legendary Kenzo enlarges its territories in Paris. One of the most famous fashion houses, Kenzo chose the luxurious Avenue George V to open a new boutique. On this avenue are situated many other high-fashion houses, like Givenchy, Armani Collezioni, Hermes, Jean Paul Gaultier. What a star collection!
The two-level corner store occupies over 5,400 square feet. As Kenzo’s senior vice president James Greenfield said to WWD.com, the boutique is designed to “create intimacy in a big space”.
And really, the new fashion house seems to be a bit in retro style, with a comfortable, familiar atmosphere, including retro coffee tables, rooms equipped with birds chirping and many lounge-style seats.
According to Greenfield, some 53 new or renovated Kenzo sale houses will be restyled in the new fashion house’s black and white design. He also noted that a new Kenzo fashion unit will be open in October in New Delhi, India.
Kenzo’s artistic director Marras, in collaboration with Milanese architects, created a new, cutting edge retail shop for Kenzo, which includes clothing racks looking like fish spines and stucco flowers blooming out of walls.
Now let’s see how the boutique on George V Avenue is organized. The house is divided into three salons: one for women, one for men and one for children.”They put women’s wear at the forefront, and an accent on luxurious accessories and runway looks”, reports WWD.com. Candy Box handbags are among women’s products exclusive to the unit.
If you have decided on the Kenzo brand for your children’s clothing, you can definitely pick them up at the new house. Children’s wear are demonstrated on mannequins seated in toy cars. How darling!
And finally men’s wear and accessories are showcased on the lower level including exclusive pieces for high-profile clientele.
Market sources estimate that Kenzo’s new boutique should bring about 10 million Euro in annual revenue. Not bad for just one boutique.
Let’s add for Kenzo fans, that very soon Kenzo will establish a new headquarters in a historic mansion on the Rue Vivienne, that dates to the 17th century. It will house showrooms, design studios, ateliers and much more.
It seems that Kenzo is on it’s way to greatly expanding its business. So it’s safe to say that we should be anticipating an increase in the styles and numbers of beautiful accessories, perfumes and clothing.
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Unsuspected alchemy between Orient and Occident. Profusion of colours and textures, unusual marriages punctuated by touches of humour.”
Vision/Mission Statement of kenzo
KENZO has always worked towards a multicultural world, a world of colors and beauty, with nature as a vibrant, inexhaustible source of inspiration. Classic, contemporary, or visionary, the women's and men's perfumes Kenzo created are based on values of life, energy, and a deep-rooted equilibrium.
Brief introduction of brand history
The House of KENZO was founded in Paris in 1970 by Takada Kenzo.In this year,He opened the first shop “Jungle Jap”and his collection was presented in New York and Tokyo in 1971. He surprised the fashion world with his originality and the apparent celebration of diverse cultures, nature and colors in his designs. Following his success in the 1970s, he launched a series of new collections for men, women and children and opened boutiques on whloe world. Since1988, Kenzo began to launch his women and men’s perfume line. In 1993 ,the KENZO brand joined the LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton company. Kenzo Takada announced his retirement in 1999, leaving his assistants, Gilles Rosier, in charge of his fashion house. In 2001, a skincare line, KENZOKI,was also launched.Since 2003, the artistic directorship of KENZO Women’s Fashion has been in the hands of the ltalian Antonio Marras.
2009年3月16日 星期一
Kenzo Fall/Winter 2006-2007 Collection
"What I admire in Kenzo is its modernity, the incredible blend of coherence and heterogeneity. I love the personal way to mix seemingly different genres and styles, and the natural poetry that happens when they are assembled. Designing for Kenzo is a very strong emotion, a real challenge". Antonio Marras
The House of Kenzo opened in 1970. Graduate of Bunka Fashion College, prestigious Fashion School in Tokio, his creator and founder, Kenzo Takada quickly became one of the main precursors of the seventies. This young Japanese has surprised by the originality of his collections and has succeeded in creating a style whose name is famous the world over. As a contemporary designer, he enjoyed introducing more freedom into the movement thus yielding with the requirements of the travelling women. He livened up the Couture rules by charming with coloured, merry, spontaneous, poetic creations and by bringing a new freshness.
He made clothes for women, men, and kids and launched in 1988 his first perfume Kenzo de Kenzo which was an immediate success.
In 1993, the House joined the luxury group LVMH. Kenzo Takada then left in 1999 during a memorable party, paying him homage for his 30-year-old career.
Since 2003, the artistic directorship of Kenzo Women's Fashion has been in the hands of the Italian Antonio Marras.
Naturally akin to the Kenzo spirit, Antonio Marras has developed a rich, poetic world made of a diversity of influences and a fusion between fashion and other forms of art.
Inspired by craftsmanship, symbolic and cultural objects, Antonio Marras invents a contemporary language, creates clothes that tell stories, for women who love freedom and authenticy and are always questing for originality.
Roy Krejberg to Leave Kenzo Men's Division
By Timothy Hagy
PARIS, Dec 4, 2002/ FW/ --- Kenzo Homme has announced the resignation of Roy Krejberg, the Danish-born Artistic Director who has actively participated in the development of the brand since 1994.
Sighting personal reasons, Mr. Krejberg is leaving the venerable Parisian fashion house with the Fall Winter 2003-4 collection that is scheduled to be shown in January 2003.
Originally founded by Kenzo Takada, the company is now a part of the LVMH group. In a separate move, LVMH has filed suit against Morgan Stanley, accusing the New York bank of negatively reporting earnings results in favor of the Gucci Group, a long time rival, and client of the American firm.
Facing the challenges of a difficult period for the luxury goods sector, a new, thus far unnamed, Artistic Director is expected to take over Kenzo Homme with the Spring / Summer 2004 collection.
Mr. Krejberg, who has received positive acclaim for his work at Kenzo, has not specified his precise career plans.
The Kenzo women's line continues to be designed by Gilles Rosier.
Kenzo to Come out of Retirement in Joint Venture with LVMH
By Godfrey Deeny
PARIS, May 14, 2002/ --- Get ready for a return to action for Kenzo Takada.
The veteran Japanese designer is making a comeback, according to an announcement from LVMH, the French conglomerate that now owns Kenzo's fashion house. Reports specify that LVMH has struck a deal with Yum?(which means "dream"), Kenzo's lifestyle line, which will go into effect on May 15.
"Kenzo Takada indicated last autumn that he would like to come out of retirement and LVMH was obviously delighted at the prospect of his return," LVMH said in its statement.
"Kenzo Takada will be devoting all of his creative energies to developing new projects in association with the LVMH Fashion Group - geared around quality, ethics or innovation - be they in the world of fashion, interior design and architecture or trend-setting."
The designer recently publicized that he would hold a press conference in Paris on May 15 to announce "something important." Today's release would appear to indicate that he was speaking of the Yum?venture.
Despite selling out to LVMH, Takada retained rights to his name. However, after leaving the scene happily three years ago, the 63-year old designer has grown anxious to launch a new creative project.
LVMH made its announcement late afternoon Friday in Paris, when most Parisians were a long way from the city enjoying an extended weekend break that began with Wednesday's national holiday.
Kenzo retired from his position as creative director of Kenzo in October 1999, three decades after launching his own house.
By Godfrey Deeny
PARIS, May 14, 2002/ --- Get ready for a return to action for Kenzo Takada.
The veteran Japanese designer is making a comeback, according to an announcement from LVMH, the French conglomerate that now owns Kenzo's fashion house. Reports specify that LVMH has struck a deal with Yum?(which means "dream"), Kenzo's lifestyle line, which will go into effect on May 15.
"Kenzo Takada indicated last autumn that he would like to come out of retirement and LVMH was obviously delighted at the prospect of his return," LVMH said in its statement.
"Kenzo Takada will be devoting all of his creative energies to developing new projects in association with the LVMH Fashion Group - geared around quality, ethics or innovation - be they in the world of fashion, interior design and architecture or trend-setting."
The designer recently publicized that he would hold a press conference in Paris on May 15 to announce "something important." Today's release would appear to indicate that he was speaking of the Yum?venture.
Despite selling out to LVMH, Takada retained rights to his name. However, after leaving the scene happily three years ago, the 63-year old designer has grown anxious to launch a new creative project.
LVMH made its announcement late afternoon Friday in Paris, when most Parisians were a long way from the city enjoying an extended weekend break that began with Wednesday's national holiday.
Kenzo retired from his position as creative director of Kenzo in October 1999, three decades after launching his own house.
An Interview with Kenzo Takada
A Second Career
By: Godfrey Deeny
May 16, 2002/ FWD/ -- F. Scott Fitzgerald may have decried the possibility of a second career in American public life, but there is apparently no such term limit in France.
Take Kenzo Takada, for example, who just had an extremely jolly lunch Wednesday in Paris to celebrate the debut of what looks like a promising new business.
"It's a new departure, and one I always expected to make someday," said Takada, standing beside a Japanese pond brimming with exotic fish on the roof of his delightful Asian-influenced home nestled in the center of an old Bastille building, of his new "maison."
Called Yume (that's Japanese for dream), the line will include a series of men's and women's apparel and accessories, as well as bed linens for La Redoute, Europe's biggest mail order group. Yume also marks the end of the designer's three-year retirement.
"You wouldn't believe the stuff that the French press wrote about me when I decided to take a break. They said I had gone into permanent retirement in Japan. Huh! The truth is I never left Paris, and always intended to come back," Kenzo confided.
"I still have this great desire to create things," he continued, dressed in a lean navy pinstripe suit, tanned, and looking easily a decade younger than his 63 years.
"I've enjoyed traveling, reflecting about things and letting my spirit soar these last few years and now I'm ready to attack this project."
For La Redoute, which prints 11 million catalogues per season and boasts 1.5 billion Euros in annual sales, Kenzo dreamed up bed linen with Japanese floral motifs, slick new ergonomic sneakers and aged silver metal, all of which capture Takada's trademark blend of the naive and practical.
And, aside from a multi-colored floral scarf, none of the creations looked overly "Kenzo."
The Kenzo-ness of the project is indeed an issue for this new venture, which has created quite a stir in Paris: luxury group LVMH, helmed by Bernard Arnault, owns the house Kenzo founded in 1970; La Redoute is controlled by PPR, the main business arm of French billionaire and Arnault rival Francois Pinault.
In the end, ill feeling seems to have been avoided by Kenzo selling a stake in Yume to LVMH, though its exact size remains something of a mystery.
"It's a minority minority stake," insisted Pierre Levy, the experienced luxury goods executive that Kenzo has chosen as his managing director.
"Clearly, our goal is not to cause LVMH a lot of irritation by repeating ideas from the past. That wouldn't make any sense," said Levy, cautioning that the designer will especially concentrate on goods for the home.
The splendid lunch Takada hosted Wednesday featured some of his first creations -- elegant sake decanters in faux bamboo.
The meal, prepared by his personal chef Toyo, would have made Lucullus envious: tomatoes stuffed with turbot and caviar, eggplant with marinated beef and mullet with baby asparagus, all served in a dining room decorated with Jean Michel Basquiat paintings, Directoire candelabras and a Gotha of statues representing gods from a score of cultures.
Takada is known for grandly generous gestures, like covering the Pont Neuf in flowers. But while such dramatic presentations are well within his ken, and with La Redoute in the habit of producing mini-collections each season with established and media-catching designers like Yves Saint Laurent, Sonia Rykiel and Stella McCartney, Kenzo said he has no immediate plans for a catwalk show.
"No, right now that sounds kind of complicated and heavy," he laughed.
By: Godfrey Deeny
May 16, 2002/ FWD/ -- F. Scott Fitzgerald may have decried the possibility of a second career in American public life, but there is apparently no such term limit in France.
Take Kenzo Takada, for example, who just had an extremely jolly lunch Wednesday in Paris to celebrate the debut of what looks like a promising new business.
"It's a new departure, and one I always expected to make someday," said Takada, standing beside a Japanese pond brimming with exotic fish on the roof of his delightful Asian-influenced home nestled in the center of an old Bastille building, of his new "maison."
Called Yume (that's Japanese for dream), the line will include a series of men's and women's apparel and accessories, as well as bed linens for La Redoute, Europe's biggest mail order group. Yume also marks the end of the designer's three-year retirement.
"You wouldn't believe the stuff that the French press wrote about me when I decided to take a break. They said I had gone into permanent retirement in Japan. Huh! The truth is I never left Paris, and always intended to come back," Kenzo confided.
"I still have this great desire to create things," he continued, dressed in a lean navy pinstripe suit, tanned, and looking easily a decade younger than his 63 years.
"I've enjoyed traveling, reflecting about things and letting my spirit soar these last few years and now I'm ready to attack this project."
For La Redoute, which prints 11 million catalogues per season and boasts 1.5 billion Euros in annual sales, Kenzo dreamed up bed linen with Japanese floral motifs, slick new ergonomic sneakers and aged silver metal, all of which capture Takada's trademark blend of the naive and practical.
And, aside from a multi-colored floral scarf, none of the creations looked overly "Kenzo."
The Kenzo-ness of the project is indeed an issue for this new venture, which has created quite a stir in Paris: luxury group LVMH, helmed by Bernard Arnault, owns the house Kenzo founded in 1970; La Redoute is controlled by PPR, the main business arm of French billionaire and Arnault rival Francois Pinault.
In the end, ill feeling seems to have been avoided by Kenzo selling a stake in Yume to LVMH, though its exact size remains something of a mystery.
"It's a minority minority stake," insisted Pierre Levy, the experienced luxury goods executive that Kenzo has chosen as his managing director.
"Clearly, our goal is not to cause LVMH a lot of irritation by repeating ideas from the past. That wouldn't make any sense," said Levy, cautioning that the designer will especially concentrate on goods for the home.
The splendid lunch Takada hosted Wednesday featured some of his first creations -- elegant sake decanters in faux bamboo.
The meal, prepared by his personal chef Toyo, would have made Lucullus envious: tomatoes stuffed with turbot and caviar, eggplant with marinated beef and mullet with baby asparagus, all served in a dining room decorated with Jean Michel Basquiat paintings, Directoire candelabras and a Gotha of statues representing gods from a score of cultures.
Takada is known for grandly generous gestures, like covering the Pont Neuf in flowers. But while such dramatic presentations are well within his ken, and with La Redoute in the habit of producing mini-collections each season with established and media-catching designers like Yves Saint Laurent, Sonia Rykiel and Stella McCartney, Kenzo said he has no immediate plans for a catwalk show.
"No, right now that sounds kind of complicated and heavy," he laughed.
Kenzo: Japanese Sensibilities Mixed With European Elegance
By: Boyd Davis
Born in Hemeji Japan in 1939, Kenzo Takada used just his first name when he launched his own label.
Mixing Japanese sensibilities and balance with European elegance, He studied at the Bunka College of Fashion. He worked in Japan after graduationa and moved to Paris in 1965.
Kenzo's designs are distinctive. One of trademark designs in incorporating the elements of the kimono, the Japanese traditional dress in modern clothes.
Kenzo is a a great colorist and a fine tailor, mixing multi-cultural aspects and converging them into one.
Kenzo menswear was designed by Roy Krejberg after Kenzo's retirement until December 2003 when the designer left the house. His last collection was shown during the Fall 2003 Paris Menswear season held last January 2003.
Gilles Rosier designed the womenswear line after Kenzo retired. He left the house in 2003.
After Rosier, Antonio Marras was hired as Creative Director for womenswear and he debuted in Paris during the Fall 2004 season.
Born in Hemeji Japan in 1939, Kenzo Takada used just his first name when he launched his own label.
Mixing Japanese sensibilities and balance with European elegance, He studied at the Bunka College of Fashion. He worked in Japan after graduationa and moved to Paris in 1965.
Kenzo's designs are distinctive. One of trademark designs in incorporating the elements of the kimono, the Japanese traditional dress in modern clothes.
Kenzo is a a great colorist and a fine tailor, mixing multi-cultural aspects and converging them into one.
Kenzo menswear was designed by Roy Krejberg after Kenzo's retirement until December 2003 when the designer left the house. His last collection was shown during the Fall 2003 Paris Menswear season held last January 2003.
Gilles Rosier designed the womenswear line after Kenzo retired. He left the house in 2003.
After Rosier, Antonio Marras was hired as Creative Director for womenswear and he debuted in Paris during the Fall 2004 season.
2009年3月15日 星期日
Kenzo, by Antonio Marras
By Suzy Menkes
Published: January 26, 2009
Published: January 26, 2009
PARIS: The Italian roots of Antonio Marras will be recognized when the designer meets President Barack Obama in Sardinia at the G8 summit this summer.
But Marras had a different country in mind when he took Russian constructivism as a theme for his first menswear show for Kenzo.
This well-judged debut focused on outerwear, where the graphic lines and check grids gave a brutal edge to more romantic embedded decoration. Top-to-toe color in wine and chartreuse added piquancy to the communist gray, black and white.
But Marras had a different country in mind when he took Russian constructivism as a theme for his first menswear show for Kenzo.
This well-judged debut focused on outerwear, where the graphic lines and check grids gave a brutal edge to more romantic embedded decoration. Top-to-toe color in wine and chartreuse added piquancy to the communist gray, black and white.
“What Marras has brought to the label, which has languished since Kenzo's retirement following his 30-year retrospective in October 1999, is a Mediterranean passion allied to an insistence on rigorous control and a determination that nothing, however technically baffling it may seem at first, is impossible.”—Hilary Alexander The Telegraph
“What I admire in Kenzo is its modernity, the incredible blend of coherence and heterogeneity. I love the personal way to mix seemingly different genres and styles, and the natural poetry that happens when they are assembled.”—Antonio Marras Kenzo Biography
“In discussions about the lack of design talent in Milan, Marras is often forgotten. But he is not only an imaginative metteur en scène; he also invented a world of his own that he has taken to Kenzo.”—Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune
“What Marras has brought to the label, which has languished since Kenzo's retirement following his 30-year retrospective in October 1999, is a Mediterranean passion allied to an insistence on rigorous control and a determination that nothing, however technically baffling it may seem at first, is impossible.”—Hilary Alexander The Telegraph
“What I admire in Kenzo is its modernity, the incredible blend of coherence and heterogeneity. I love the personal way to mix seemingly different genres and styles, and the natural poetry that happens when they are assembled.”—Antonio Marras Kenzo Biography
“In discussions about the lack of design talent in Milan, Marras is often forgotten. But he is not only an imaginative metteur en scène; he also invented a world of his own that he has taken to Kenzo.”—Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune
“What Marras has brought to the label, which has languished since Kenzo's retirement following his 30-year retrospective in October 1999, is a Mediterranean passion allied to an insistence on rigorous control and a determination that nothing, however technically baffling it may seem at first, is impossible.”—Hilary Alexander The Telegraph
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