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Pierre Cardin
Pietro Costante Cardin, known as Pierre Cardin, was an Italian-French fashion designer. He is known for what were his avant-garde style and Space Age designs. He preferred geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical. He founded his fashion house in 1950 and introduced the "bubble dress" in 1954.
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business · Italian-French fashion designer (1922–2020) · grand couturier · fashion designer · businessperson · costume designer · also Pierre Cardin, Piero Cardin, Pietro Cardin, Pietro Costante Cardin, Cardin
Born 2 July 1922 · Died 29 December 2020 · Q299211
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2020· 1 entry
2011· 1 entry
Cardin tried to sell his business, valuing it at €1 billion, although the Wall Street Journal considered it to be worth about a fifth of that amount
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Francisc Skorina (2002).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Quotes from WWD included "Pierre Cardin—he has sold his name for toilet paper
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1994· 1 entry
To show his collection only to a small circle of selected clients and journalists
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1991· 1 entry
And a United Nations FAO Goodwill Ambassador in 2009
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1986· 1 entry
Women's Wear Daily (WWD) estimated Cardin's annual income at over US$10 million
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1983· 1 entry
Where it was among the first international brands to operate in mainland China and became an enduring cultural landmark
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1979· 3 entries
With miniskirts presented in a variety of shapes and styles, including sixties-revival looks
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When he put them in his menswear as well as his womenswear
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Cardin was appointed a consultant to China's agency for trade in textiles, and in March of that year, he became the first Western designer to present a fashion show in China in many decades
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1978· 1 entry
His shoulders rivaling Claude Montana's in width and incorporating the geometric shapes that Cardin favored
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1977· 3 entries
When Cardin partnered with Dillingham Manufacturing Company, Scandinavian Folklore Carpets of Denmark for Ege Rya Inc
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Cardin simplified and made more accessible the haute couture process by introducing "prêt-couture," off-the-rack hand-made clothes that customers could acquire with only one fitting and a price intermediate between his r
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1979, and 1983, he was awarded the Cartier Golden Thimble by French haute couture for the most creative collection of the season
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1976· 1 entry
Cardin's position as most influential menswear designer began to be eclipsed by Giorgio Armani, who was just becoming a name among the fashion cognoscenti
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1975· 1 entry
Cardin opened a furniture boutique on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, having earlier introduced the Environnement furniture store in 1968
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1973· 1 entry
Cardin's backdrop at the joint French-US fashion show held at Versailles was a spaceship, while other designers chose bucolic or nostalgic scenes
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1972· 2 entries
Including miniskirts, had hoops, ranging from two or three widely separated hoops in the skirt of a minidress to multiple hoops very close together near the hem of an evening gown that moved up and down as the wearer wal
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When he, Yves Saint Laurent, and a few others declared that they would stop presenting separate public couture shows for spring and instead show their couture lines with their ready-to-wear collections and then changed t
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1971· 3 entries
Cardin put an emphasis on miniskirts of different cuts than he'd been showing in recent years, many split at the sides, and included short shorts with them as part of that year's hot pants trend, while continuing to show
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Adopted the motif of a circle at the end of a long, rectangular strip, a sort of geometric pendulum form that he would put at the ends of belts, sleeves, and pant legs
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Cardin redesigned the barong tagalog, a national costume of the Philippines, by opening the front, removing the cuffs that needed cufflinks, flaring the sleeves, and minimizing the embroidery
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1970· 2 entries
That featured skullcap- and Medieval-looking headgear and the variety of skirt lengths he was showing in his collections at the time, including ankle-length maxiskirts and loincloth-looking miniskirts worn over sometimes
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Where he tried on the original spacesuit worn by the first human to set foot on the Moon, Neil Armstrong
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1969· 1 entry
His futuristic looks were augmented by Space Age belt fastenings covered by transparent plastic domes; chrome-shiny geometric jewelry and belt buckles; leather added to his continued use of vinyl; newly trapunto-stitched
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1968· 3 entries
Showing synthetic outfits of molded Cardine fabric whose surfaces stood out in geometric forms, garments that formed stark geometric shapes when the arms were held out to the sides, metallic silver leather, phosphorescen
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Cardin opened a furniture and interior decor store called Environnement
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Initially as part of his unisex clothes, an important trend of this enlightened era
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1966· 1 entry
And began showing his collections in his own venue
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1965· 1 entry
Shortened all of his day skirts to mid-thigh or higher and moved further into a Space Age look, with conical dresses, coats, and capes featuring high, geometric collars and hoods and prominent hem-banding, all worn wi
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1964· 3 entries
Showed low-slung waists and tights that matched upper garments, including patterned tights matching patterned tops, a characteristic trend of the mid-sixties, and he began adding simple, top-of-the-knee A-line shift d
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That included numerous turtlenecks, a garment that would become a mainstay of men's fashion during the decade
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A stance Cardin would maintain until 1968
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1963· 2 entries
Two years after the country had first sent cosmonauts into orbit and the year Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to enter outer space
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And during the seventies he would be known as the most prominent non-Soviet designer in the country, a favorite of celebrated figures in the arts and politics
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1958· 1 entry
Showed knee-length puffball skirts, coats with similar turned-under hems, and tops that featured integral scarf constructions, a theme that Cardin would continue for much of his career
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1957· 1 entry
And it was in Japan that he would discover one of his favorite models and muses, Hiroko Matsumoto, known professionally as Hiroko, whom the public would associate with Cardin through much of the 1960s
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1953· 1 entry
With his first collection of women's clothing and became a member of the Chambre Syndicale, a French association of haute couture designers
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1950· 1 entry
And introduced the "bubble dress" in 1954
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1947· 1 entry
And rejected the new shapes out of Europe
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-07-02.
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