He passed away the famous fashion designer Pierre Cardin, στα 98 his years. The man who marked the entire fashion scene for decades. The French designer and seamstress Pierre Cardin, a visionary stylist and its pioneer ready to wear……
He passed away today at an advanced age 98 years the famous fashion designer Pierre Cardin (Pierre Cardin).
The Perpetual Secretary, Laurent Petitgirard, and the members of the Academy of Fine Arts are very sad to announce the disappearance of their colleague Pierre Cardin. He was elected on 12 February 1992 in Pierre Dux's chair (free members section). pic.twitter.com/sA1mABvZB5
- Fine arts academy (@AcadBeauxarts) December 29, 2020
THE Pierre Cardin was born in 2 July of 1922 in Treviso, Italy. He immigrated to France at a young age. He died at the hospital in Nouveau in western Paris. He became famous for his avant-garde style and loved geometric patterns. THE Pierre Cardin is the man who marked the entire fashion scene for decades. He founded his fashion house 1950, while from 1991 He was a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
He put his name everywhere - From ashtrays to clothes and towels
"Fashion is not enough," Pierre Garden once said to Eugenia Shepard, an American columnist and fashion critic. "I do not want to be just a designer". And it was never just that. Dress the most famous - artists, politicians, tasters and members of the high bourgeoisie-, but he was also a merchant with access to the general public, with an international brand and with its name entering a variety of products.
Pierre Cardin was a futurist in the fashion world
In dresses and bath towels, in the uniforms of pilots and car drivers, in perfumes and ashtrays, even in pickle jars: he had put his name everywhere. Based on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, radically changed the way people viewed fashion, creating fashion for the masses, ready-to-wear clothes and causing a rush to the elitism that until then characterized Parisian sewing.
A futuristic designer with a passion for technology
In a career above 70 years, Pierre Cardin remained a futurist. "He loved technology and was in love with the concept of progress," said Andrew Bolton., head of the MET Costume Institute in New York.
The 1958 made history by putting helmets on his models along with tiny skirts and colorful tights. He dressed men and women in space costumes. The 1969, NASA commissioned him to create a version of the space suit, which was the inspiration for his later work. "The dresses I prefer," Pierre Cardin said at the time, "Are what I create for a life that does not yet exist".
His designs were influenced by geometric shapes, often made of artificial fabrics, such as foil, brightly colored paper and vinyl. These materials would shape the dominant aesthetics of the early decade 1960. It was a new silhouette that "denied the natural contours of the body and looked somewhat asexual", said Bolton. «Η ικανότητά του να ”χαράζει” τα υφάσματα με αρχιτεκτονική ευαισθησία ήταν η πραγματική του υπογραφή», added.
Where did he get his inspiration from?
Pierre Cardin received his inspiration from everywhere, from the pagodas he visited in China, the Op Art movement in painting and car design. "I am always inspired by something external and not by the body itself", he told the New York Times 1985. Clothes, he had said, aimed to “give the body its shape, in the same way that a glass shapes water when poured into it ".
The famous French designer laid the foundations for a world empire until the end of 1950. At a time when France was the undisputed focus of fashion, brought his plans to Moscow, Tokyo and Beijing, doing more to transcend international boundaries than any designer of the era.
The 1957 became the first to forge business ties with Japan and 1959 he started selling his designs there. He managed to feel a huge, untapped market for fashionable clothes in Central Europe and Asia in the late 1990s 1960 offered his plans for mass production in China. The 1983 became the first French designer to penetrate the Soviet Union: His designs were made in Soviet factories and sold under the Cardin label in a Cardin boutique in Moscow..
"Emperor" of a kingdom
He considered himself above all a productive man of ideas, enjoying his role as overseer of a kingdom that included clothing accessories, furniture, household products and perfumes sold at approx 800 stores in more than 140 countries in 5 continents.
Chocolates, pen, cigarettes, pans and alarm clocks - everything with the Cardin logo, as well as shoes, underwear, blouses, wallets, belts and most recently an Android tablet. Until the middle of the decade 1980 Pierre Cardin was at the helm of a marketing firm and a network of licensed franchises 5%-12%, an revenue stream.
"I was born an artist," Pierre Cardin told The Times 1987, "But I'm a businessman".