Kenzo Takada, the Japanese-French designer and founder of Kenzo, has died from complications of COVID-19 at the age of 81, a spokesman confirmed to The Guardian. He died in the American hospital in Paris."Kenzo Takada has, from the 1970s, infused into fashion a tone of poetic lightness and sweet freedom which inspired many designers after him," Bernard Arnault, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of LVMH said in a statement.