Pierre Cardin, who died Tuesday aged 98, was a man of many paradoxes — a designer who sought flamboyant yet simple styles, an aesthete with a head for business, and a futurist now associated with retro. © Fred DUFOUR Globalist: In 1979, Cardin became the first French designer to cement […]
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French fashion pioneer Pierre Cardin dies aged 98
French designer Pierre Cardin, who shook up the fashion world with his visionary creations but also turned his name into a money-spinning global brand, died Tuesday aged 98. © CURTO DE LA TORRE ‘My aim was the street, that my name and my creations be on the street.’ Cardin won […]
French fashion designer Pierre Cardin dead at 98
French fashion designer Pierre Cardin possessed a wildly inventive artistic sensibility tempered by a stiff dose of business sense. He had no problem acknowledging that he earned more from a pair of stockings than from a haute-couture gown with a six-figure price tag. Cardin, who died Tuesday at age 98, […]