Famous Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada will launch a luxury home and lifestyle brand called "K三" on January 17. The brand will debut in a new showroom on Boulevard Saint-Germain, as well as at the "Paris Deco Home and Maison et Objet" design trade show.

Kenzo Takada is the founder of the Kenzo brand, which was acquired by the French luxury goods giant LVMH Group in 1993, and he retired in 1999. After his retirement, Kenzo Takada launched a series of cross-border collaborations on lifestyle products, but this time he started a new company for the first time nearly 50 years after he founded the fashion brand Jungle Jap (later Kenzo).

This time Takada Kenzo did not return to the field of ready-to-wear, but chose the field of lifestyle. He said: Because everything in the ready-to-wear is seasonal. "

Takada Kenzo has always been known for interior design. His previous home in Paris's Bastille district mimicked a traditional Japanese home, with a Japanese-style garden and an indoor pool. His current corporate headquarters is located on the left bank of Paris and is also full of oriental art, fish tanks, red-lacquered coffee tables and ceramic vases. His new residence is located on two floors of the office, with a magnificent view of the Eiffel Tower.

Takada Kenzo smiled at the company headquarters and said, "I'm almost 81 years old and still working. I'm also weird. But I stopped working too early and left Kenzo at 60. Then I realized I missed it Work, so I returned to work. "

The new project "K三" contains more than 300 works, focusing on furniture (including three beds), ceramics, carpets, ornaments, linen and textiles, and has developed products with a number of manufacturing partners in Italy, France and the United States, including Bedding developed in collaboration with Italian textile company Sferra. A total of 250 people participated in the cooperation project of K3. The K3 brand will be launched in "Drop style" every year and sold to all over the world.

"K三" name represents the three main partners behind the project: Kenzo, as well as managing partner Jonathan Bouchet Manheim and creative assistant Engelbert Honorat. The logo of "K三" combining Chinese and Western also shows its cross-cultural ambitions.

Throughout the series, Kenzo Takada pays tribute to Japanese tradition. Three screens show three main themes of the K三 series, including: cherry blossoms, intricate floral patterns inspired by nature; maiko, bolder, borrowing red and white makeup from geishas; general, an ivory black-based hue Vivid theme.

Ceramic works showcase Japanese gold lacquer repair technology, a technique for filling broken ceramics with gold lacquer to fill cracks. "I know this technology for a long time, but I have only seen it in old palaces in Japan." Although he has many friends studying ceramics, he has only been exposed once. "I realized only when working with Engelbert Honorat that, from a graphical perspective, gold paint is really interesting," he said.

This series of textiles is also very Japanese. Some printed sheets have striking magenta flower motifs, and some have subtle white jacquard tones. The fabric of the furniture is adorned with avant-garde black and silver ikat patterns.