The first Kenzo campaign under the creative direction of Opening Ceremony’s Carol Lim and Humberto Leon is an awesome 40 seconds animation directed by mixed-media master Jo Ratcliffe and produced by Ryan Goodwin-Smith (Passion Pictures). It is very lively and colorful with great music, and the video presents the collections theme, colors and direction very well. Watch it below.

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With new designers Humberto Leon and Carol Lim stepping up to the plate at Kenzo, the S/S 2012 collection was bound to shake things up a bit. The Franco-Japanese label itself, founded by Kenzo Takada, already brings an East meets West aesthetic. But thanks to the two new creative directors—known to be the curators of cool—the line has also been injected with fresh touches of urban wear, youthful shapes, and eye-catching new prints.

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South African blogger Miss Moss took her favorite Spring 2012 collection, Kenzo (recently taken over by creative directors Humberto Leon and Carol Lim of Opening Ceremony) and re-imagined the best looks into a completely different scenery. A clever idea that I could have seen as their look book! Read the full story

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Kenzo, designer Antonio Marras dedicated the second half of the show to creating a cross-cultural journey of traditional costumes by layering multiple pieces from the Kenzo archive to create these fascinating ‘towers of clothing’. It was more performance art than a runway, each look was a production within itself that told the story of its own.

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Every season I try to redefine each fashion week by its strongest characteristics. The fashion weeks personalities rarely change but perhaps my perspective on them continues to evolve. Looking at Paris this season I would say that Paris’s personality is “Classic Remixed”. All silhouettes have a similar structural starting point but what makes the featured designer’s collections stand out is how each pulls, crops and tweaks it to express a very different aesthetic, within the variables of “Classic Remixed”. Read the full story

Wow! Paris Fashion Week SS 2010 was jammed packed with goodness, as to be expected from Paris. So many collections, so much detail, and so much range. Paris fashion week managed to combine the strengths of New York, London, and Milan all in one week this round. My favorite collections to narrow it down were Balenciaga, Balmain, Chloe & Celine (i’ll elaborate on the junction with the ~ and percent ~ in a moment), Gareth Pugh, Kenzo, Lanvin,  McQueen, and Tim Hamilton.  But all the designers and looks featured here were the best of Paris fashion week so open your eyes and enjoy the edit that took days and days to produce. Continue reading below…

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