Fashion designer Kenzo Takada talks about his colourful legacy

Kenzo Takada's new book traces his trajectory since arriving in France as a young man. Photo: AFP

Kenzo Takada, the Japanese designer who retired at the height of his colourful career nearly 20 years ago, wants to show the world how he came up with the pathbreaking designs that helped catapult a wave of Japanese creators onto the Paris stage.

After years of taking time for himself, ”I again needed to do something, to work,” he said, in an interview in Paris.