Fashion designer Kenzo Takada dies from Covid-19 complications at age 81 near Paris, spokeswoman and reports say

PARIS

: 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.

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

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