Kenzo's Creative Director Antonio Marras talks to Dazed about the clash between Japanese and French styles in the Spring/Summer 2011 menswear collection.



In the autumn of 1964, young Kenzo Takada travelled on a boat all the way to Japan from France, arriving in Marseille on 1st January 1965. The adventurous trip turned along the way into a journey of discovery since the ship made many ports of call that contributed to give the young designer a cultural shock and that influenced in later years his designs. Kenzo's current creative director Antonio Marras reversed the story: the Alghero-born designer knows very well that travelling is encoded in the fashion house's DNA and took Kenzo's destination, the port of Marseille, as a starting point to tell a transnational fashion story.

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