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A woman wearing a face mask enters a Huawei store with 5G signs at a shopping mall, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Beijing, China, Aug. 3, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Carlos Garcia Rawlins.
Rising Sino-American antagonism and Washington’s emphasis on restraining Beijing’s influence remind some scholars of the Cold War period. Historian Niall Ferguson, for example, has written that
a new Cold War has begun. Such comparisons are tempting, but China unlike the Cold War-era Soviet Union is well placed in the globalized international environment and developing quickly. While some 21st century Western analysts have indulged in the wishful thinking that China would emulate the American model, Beijing has gone its own way.
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French fashion designer Pierre Cardin, hailed for his visionary creations but also for bringing stylish clothes to the masses, passed away on 29 December 2020.
Cardin, who was born to a low-income family in northern Italy but became a France-based fashion superstar, died in a hospital in Neuilly in the west of Paris, his family told AFP.
“It is a day of great sadness for all our family. Pierre Cardin is no more,” the statement said. It said after a lifetime spanning a century he had left France and the world a “great unique artistic heritage” and not only in fashion.
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PARIS, Dec 30 ― Pierre Cardin, who died yesterday 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. He rose to the pantheon of France's post-war fashion giants only to shake.
Pierre Cardin was seen expanding his empire globally, moving into once closed markets and selling hundreds of licences to make himself the undisputed king of designer merchandising. Photo: AFP
Pierre Cardin, who died Tuesday (Dec 29) 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.
He rose to the pantheon of France s post-war fashion giants only to shake it all up by leading what was in the 1950s a revolutionary concept – designing ready-to-wear collections for the high street.
A savvy businessman, he expanded his empire globally, moving into once closed markets and selling hundreds of licences to make himself the undisputed king of designer merchandising – despite being slammed by the fashion elite for selling out.