Solange Performed at Humberto Leon and Carol Lim’s Last Ever Kenzo Show

BIDDING GOODBYE: Blood Orange musician Dev Hynes was looking mischievous as he arrived at the Kenzo spring 2020 show on Sunday, held at the AccorHotels Arena concert hall in Paris. “Do you know who is doing the music for the show?” asked the musician, who himself had been tapped by designers Humberto Leon and Carol Lim to create the soundtracks for Kenzo shows in the past. We didn’t. “You’ll find out very soon,” he grinned. The occasion was momentous: It was Leon and Lim’s last show for the brand, after arriving at the house in 2011 and completely transforming the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned brand’s direction. “When they took over the brand, all of a sudden everything changed,” said designer Kenzo Takada, the label’s founder, who stepped down from the company in 1999. “They brought a casual aspect, a bit sporty, very graphic. It really made the brand fresher and more dynamic: A lot of young people are Kenzo fans today. I was lucky that way. It is my name, after all,” he added. M.I.A. at Kenzo Men’s spring 2020  Stephane Feugere for WWD Sitting alongside hip-hop artist M.I.A., American actress Rowan Blanchard was singing the creative duo’s praises. “They are some of the kindest people I’ve met

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