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Pierre Cardin, the grand couturier who died in Paris yesterday at the age of 98 was a unique blend of fashion designer and branding visionary.
Cardin’s name could be “worn, walked on, slept in, sat upon, munched, drunk, flown, pedalled or driven in 69 countries”, Time magazine reported in 1979.
While his Space Age designs upended the Paris fashion scene in the 1960s and 70s, Cardin was always a futurist. He adopted a pioneering approach to merchandise and become the first couturier to seriously embrace the licensing business for perfumes and accessories.
The fashion world is full of delicious ironies and Cardin, whose family fled from Treviso to France in 1924 to escape fascism, would have enjoyed the latest episode with his upbeat, Italian sense of humour.
Pierre Cardin
The Dior protege dressed The Beatles and Lauren Bacall and redefined fashion s business model as he built an international empire of licensed products.
Pierre Cardin, the Italian-born French designer of an eternal tomorrow who defined the futuristic look of the 1960s and revolutionized the business of high fashion, died today. He was 98.
Cardin died Tuesday at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside Paris, his family told the Agence France-Presse.
During his seven-decade career, Cardin came to be known for his avant-garde creativity in both fashion and business, and his futuristic materials and stark silhouettes with geometric details became synonymous with the Space Age. A Cardin garment is unmistakable with its trademark minimalism and almost complete disregard for the female form; it is the antithesis of the womanly New Look pioneered by Christian Dior, with whom Cardin worked before founding his eponymous couture fashion house in 1950.