Designer Kenzo Takada, left, accepts applause as he walks with singer Solange Knowles after the Kenzo mens Spring-Summer 2020 fashion collection presented in Paris, Sunday, June 23 2019. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Designer Kenzo Takada, left, accepts applause as he walks with singer Solange Knowles at the end of one of his fashion shows in Paris, June 23 2019. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Coronavirus: Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada dies from COVID-19 disease

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Published: 04 October ,2020: 08:17 PM GST Updated: 04 October ,2020: 08:34 PM GST

Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, better known as Kenzo, died Sunday from the COVID-19 disease, his spokesman told several French media outlets.

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

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Kenzo, the house he founded in the 1970s, is owned by LVMH, the world’s biggest luxury group.

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