Collection: Kenzo

Kenzo embodies a hybrid aesthetic, born from the encounter between Parisian energy and Japanese imagination. Its creations play with contrasts, prints, and bright colors, cultivating a visual joy and freedom of tone. In eyewear, this DNA translates into original frames, playful shapes, colorful acetates, and graphic details that reflect the house's taste for cultural hybridization and creative fantasy.

Kenzo was founded in 1970 in Paris by Kenzo Takada, a Japanese fashion designer who trained in Tokyo and then settled in France. The designer quickly established a unique style, blending Asian references, Western cuts, and exuberant prints. Kenzo eyewear expanded in the 1980s and 1990s through licenses with European manufacturers, particularly in France and Italy. These collections capture the house's spirit: a blend of understated elegance and eccentricity, with particular attention to colorful details and sculpted shapes.

- KZ400C SU 66V: red and blue acetate cat-eye frame, matching tinted lenses.

- KZ3007: rectangular design, branches printed with floral patterns.

- KZ series from the 90s: play on transparency in acetate, bright colors (turquoise, purple, red tortoise).

- Engraved metal frames: patterns inspired by nature (flowers, bamboo, waves).

Kenzo Takada was one of the first designers to introduce textile-inspired floral and animal motifs into eyewear, an innovation that marked the collections of the 1990s. Some glasses featured temples decorated like optical embroidery, a direct echo of the prints on his runway shows.

Vintage Kenzo glasses are distinguished by their formal creativity, bold color palette, and high-quality European manufacturing. They represent a unique facet of the fashion history of the 1980s and 2000s, when accessories became a platform for artistic expression. Their current rarity, combined with their strong identity, makes them prized pieces among design enthusiasts and collectors sensitive to cultural hybridization.