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Jun 8, 2018 · CARDIN, PIERRE. During the last half of the twentieth century, Pierre Cardin (1922–) became a prominent and widely admired designer as well as a highly successful businessman. Cardin is known for his acute intuition, which often made him a trendsetter and design leader. Cardin has expanded his design operations far beyond fashions for both ...
Sep 5, 2019 · Pierre Cardin wearing an Apollo 11 space suit, 1969. Courtesy of Archives Pierre Cardin. Cindy Sherman's mystifying portraits of imaginary people. Even at the age of 97, Cardin’s gaze remains ...
Pierre Cardin, c. 1968. Gift of Laura Jarre. 87.1968.012.17AB. Pierre Cardin was born “Pietro” in a small town outside Venice, Italy in 1922. His parents, looking to escape Italy’s growing fascist regime, immigrated the family (Cardin was the youngest of 11 children) to Saint Étienne, France in 1924. He studied architecture before ...
Pierre Cardin (born July 7, 1922, San Biagio di Callalta, Italy—died December 29, 2020, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was a French designer of clothes for women and also a pioneer in the design of high fashion for men. Cardin’s father, a wealthy French wine merchant, wished him to study architecture, but from childhood he was interested in ...
Dec 30, 2020 · By Benjamin Ivry December 30, 2020. The French fashion designer Pierre Cardin, who died on Dec. 29 at age 98, likely acquired empathy for Jewish customers through his wartime experience as an ...
Dec 29, 2020 · Cardin was born in Treviso, northern Italy, where his parents, Maria Montagner and Alessandro Cardin, laboured in the vineyards of the Veneto region before resettling with their 11 children in St ...
Dec 29, 2020 · Cardin turned the namesake brand that he founded in 1950 into an empire. “He had up to 800 licenses at some point and 200,000 persons working directly or indirectly for Pierre Cardin products including pens, chocolate, aeroplanes, cars, curtains [and] kitchens,” says Pierre Pelegry, a longtime collaborator of the couturier.
