{"id":23444,"date":"2020-10-05T01:12:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T16:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/04\/kenzo-founder-kenzo-takada-dies-of-covid-19-aged-81"},"modified":"2020-10-05T03:46:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T18:46:59","slug":"kenzo-founder-kenzo-takada-dies-of-covid-19-aged-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23444","title":{"rendered":"Fashion designer Kenzo Takada dies after catching Covid-19 aged 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Takada was the first Japanese designer to make a mark on the Paris fashion scene<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2020\/oct\/04\/kenzo-widely-copied-rule-breaker-who-shook-up-paris-fashion\">Widely copied rule-breaker who shook up Paris fashion <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada has died in Paris after contracting Covid-19, a spokesperson has announced. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p>Takada, known best by his first name, was the first designer from Japan to break into the city\u2019s exclusive fashion milieu in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/04\/kenzo-founder-kenzo-takada-dies-of-covid-19-aged-81\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takada was the first Japanese designer to make a mark on the Paris fashion sceneWidely copied rule-breaker who shook up Paris fashion Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesThe Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada has died in Paris after contracting Covid-19, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,576,88,78,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fashion","category-japan","category-life-and-style","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23454,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23444\/revisions\/23454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}