Pierre Cardin: his life in photography

Pierre Cardin, a legend in the fashion world who showed creative and future-oriented fashion, died at the age of 98.

Having worked as a designer for more than 70 years, he is called a master of French fashion. After the Second World War, he opened his own boutique, and is evaluated for helping to lead the’golden age’ of Paris fashion with futuristic design.

Cardin’s name became known worldwide thanks to his licensing business. He is regarded as a representative example of mass-producing clothes of famous designers and distributing them to the public. It was a strange attempt in the fashion world at the time.

He held a comeback fashion show at the age of 90 in 2012, and was active until old age.

I looked back on his fashion and life with 10 photos.

Cardin began working in fashion in Paris after World War II. By the 1960s, it became a leader in European fashion.

His’Space Age’ collection, which he introduced in the late 1960s, captured the future. He also made clothes with unconventional materials such as foil and vinyl.

In 1970, when designing nursing clothing, he used bold colored tights such as pink, lemon and pastel green.

In 1991, he became the first designer to hold a fashion show in Moscow’s Red Square. At that time, 200,000 spectators watched his fashion show.

Pierre Cardin poses at the Paris Museum, where her exhibition was held in 2014.

The museum named this retrospective’past-present-future’.

Cardin presents her 2009 collection in her villa.

Cardin preferred geometric patterns.

Through the licensing business, his name was used not only for ready-to-wear clothes, but also for various products.

Last year, his 2020 collection was unveiled at a seaside resort in China.