Kenzo Takada, a famous Japanese designer and founder of international fashion brand KENZO, died in a Paris hospital on October 4 at the age of 81 after struggling with the complications of COVID-19 for several weeks. The fashion industry has referred to this designer as the "first Japanese designer to break into the Paris fashion circle". Following him, Japanese designers such as Kansai Yamamoto, Yoshihisa Miyake, Yoji Yamamoto, and Pauling Kawakubo have all brought a fresh Japanese trend to the Paris fashion industry.
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When it comes to fashion, people always trace back to the Western world: in 18th century France, court aesthetics once influenced the footsteps of fashion. After the French Revolution, British designer Charles Frederick Voss opened the first haute couture store in Paris at 7 Peace Road, proposing the concept of a "designer brand" for the first time and holding a fashion debut. Afterwards, France embarked on the path of becoming the capital of high-end customization. In the 1920s, legendary designers such as Gabriel Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent labeled Paris with a fashion culture label. From then on, fashion was no longer the emerald feathers on the royal attire, but transformed into the lace on the jeans of street girls.
The hardcore status of Paris in the fashion industry has led Paris designers to spontaneously form a smaller "fashion circle". It is not easy to integrate into this circle, but there are a few outsiders who, with their full talents, have bravely broken their own ground in Paris: Kenzo Takada, at the age of 25, went to Paris with a demolition compensation and bravely infected the cold and aloof Paris with his passion, freedom, and fun; Dior's first female helmsman, Maria Garcia Corelli, expressed her attitude freely through fashion. The famous "We should all be feminists" T-shirt on her debut attracted a large number of young people who were eager to live a true self; Caesar the Great in the fashion industry, Karl Lagerfeld, used his talent and diligence to help Chanel come back to life - although he didn't like others calling him a "diligent designer," his famous saying was "I'll die if I don't work.".
Madame Pompadou admires Baroque style court attire
Do you think the fashion industry has nothing to do with you? Wrong!
The seemingly niche and aloof fashion circle actually implicitly controls the way ordinary people dress. So how did fashion emerge? There are several important time points in tracing the history of fashion. In the 18th century French court, fashion began to emerge. Madame Pompadou and the decapitated queen of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, pushed court attire from Baroque art to the trend of Rococo. Marie Antoinette, along with an imperial tailor, Rose Bertaine, designed her own attire for the queen. As a result, Rose was considered a veteran of the high-end custom clothing industry, He was also the first person to label the term "fashion" as French culture.
After the outbreak of the French Revolution, the fashion industry fell silent for decades, until in 1858, British designer Charles Frederick Voss and Swedish businessman Otto BoBev partnered to open Paris's first haute couture store, Voss and BoBev, at 7 Peace Road.
