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File photo dated July 9, 2016 shows fashion designer Pierre Cardin (front) during a fashion show in Lacoste, southern France. Pierre Cardin, the French fashion designer famous for his avant-garde style and pioneering business moves across the world, has died at the age of 98, French media reported on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Li Genxing)
PARIS, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) Pierre Cardin, the French fashion designer famous for his avant-garde style and pioneering business moves across the world, has died at the age of 98, French media reported on Tuesday.
The national daily Le Monde called the designer renovator of post-war French haute couture as he made a series of futuristic inventions, took the haut-couture of golden salon down to the streets with his ready-to-wear for mass circulation, launched the first line of men s clothing, and put his name as a brand on numerous products.