Nigo takes the artistic direction of Kenzo, LVMH announces

MODE - The luxury group LVMH announced this Wednesday, September 15, the appointment of the Japanese stylist Nigo as an artistic director of Maison Kenzo, replacing Felipe Oliveira Baptista who had left his duties in June.

Kenzo, a house belonging to LVMH and founded in 1970 by the Japanese Kenzo Takada, died of COVID-19 last October, announced last spring that his contract with Portuguese designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista would end in June.

The group of Bernard Arnault announced on Wednesday in a press release the appointment of Nigo at the head of the creation of Kenzo from September 20.