Japan's leading commercial designer as well as establishing his own
Tokyo design studio in 1970.
Studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo.
After 30 years in the fashion business, he announced that Naoki
Takizawa would take over his ready-to-wear-lines (2000).
Is mentioned in the song "Flamboyant" by Pet Shop Boys.
He was seven years old and in his school classroom when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. His mother died of radiation poisoning less than three years later.