Pierre Cardin, whose name and business has one of the highest global recognition levels in the luxury fashion sector, is not only a fashion design icon, but has also become an institution. At his current age of 85 years, Pierre Cardin has a career in fashion spanning more than 65 years.
He continues to preside over a fashion empire that he built from nothing and still owns per cent. He has been described as the godfather of the fashion industry and as an unparalleled revolutionary. The Pierre Cardin fashion empire currently has factories and employs more than , people in over countries. It incorporates diversified fields ranging from fashion and accessories, to cosmetics , fragrance, jewellery and timepieces, restaurants, hotels and museums. Other product divisions include champagne, wines and spirits, sweets and chocolates and other consumer goods such as confectionaries and canned food.
Pierre Cardin was propelled to the global stage of fashion as a result of his high artistic talent and his innovative and often radical nature. He had been among its illustrious members since The academy did not give a cause of death or say where the designer died.
Created for neither pragmatists nor wallflowers, his designs were all about making a big entrance — sometimes very literally.
Gowns and bodysuits in fluorescent spandex were fitted with plastic hoops that stood away from the body at the waist, elbows, wrists and knees. Bubble dresses and capes enveloped their wearers in oversized spheres of fabric. His flagship store, located next to the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris, continues to showcase eye-catching designs.
Cardin was born on July 7, , in a small town near Venice, Italy, to a modest, working-class family. When he was a child, the family moved to Saint Etienne in central France, where Cardin was schooled and became an apprentice to a tailor at age After moving to Paris, he worked as an assistant in the House of Paquin starting in and also helped design costumes for the likes of filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Cardin delivered his first real collection in It was so controversial a move that he left the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture Parisienne, the governing body of French couture, in part over the controversy this caused.
He was back in the fold within a year. By , though, the ever-rebellious Cardin decided to apply his moniker to his first license contract outside of fashion — he created a line of Modernist pottery.
During the s, when designer ready-to-wear exploded and the demand for goods bearing a fashionable name became too lucrative to ignore, Cardin signed multiple contracts.
By , he boasted licences, and was indirectly responsible for , employees in factories around the world. He bought the rotund retreat Le Palais Bulles the bubble palace in ; today, his fortune is estimated at around million Euros, but no-one knows for sure as the company is privately held.
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