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Fashion Designer Kenzo Takada Dies at 81 After Contracting COVID-19, Reports Say

© REUTERS / Enrique Marcarian/File PhotoFILE PHOTO: Japanese designer Kenzo Takada, also known as Kenzo, poses for the media in front of his works at an art gallery in Buenos Aires, April 7, 2009
FILE PHOTO: Japanese designer Kenzo Takada, also known as Kenzo, poses for the media in front of his works at an art gallery in Buenos Aires, April 7, 2009 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, founder of the Kenzo brand, has passed away at age of 81 after contracting COVID-19, media reported Sunday.

French newspaper Le Monde cited the world-renowned fashion designer's spokesman as saying that he died at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine outside Paris.

Kenzo had made a name for himself in France throughout the 1970s with his eponymous fashion brand.

He sold the brand to luxury conglomerate LVMH in the early 1990s but has remained a prominent figure in the fashion circles.

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