Kenzo

Kenzo S.A., sold as Kenzo Paris, is a French luxury fashion house founded in 1970 by the Japanese designer Kenzo Takada and now owned by the luxury group LVMH. It began as a boutique called Jungle Jap in the Galerie Vivienne in Paris and took the name Kenzo after a fashion show in New York in 1976. The house added menswear in 1983, children's and home collections in 1987 and fragrances in 1988. LVMH bought it in 1993 for about 80 million dollars, and Takada stayed for a few years before retiring from fashion in 1999. Later creative directors included Antonio Marras, Carol Lim and Humberto Leon, Felipe Oliveira Baptista and, from 2021, Nigo. By 2017 accessories and shoes made up almost 30 percent of its revenue.