After five years of work, Dior helped the young designer launch his own boutique, Eve, which immediately became a success. Luckily, the costumes went over well, and the director introduced Cardin to luxury designer Christian Dior (casual) who took him on as a tailor. Soon after, he ran into legendary filmmaker Jean Cocteau, who enlisted him to create costumes for a production of Beauty and The Beast. I asked her for a name in Paris so I could get started with a fashion house” – 2014īorn in Italy in 1922, Cardin got his start in 1945 when he scored a job at French fashion house Paquin, before he went on to cut his teeth in Elsa Schaparelli’s atelier. I thought she was crazy because, at that time, I didn’t have anything. “A fortune teller – a sixty-five-year-old woman in Vichy – read my cards and told me that I would be successful, exceptionally successful, and that my name would be known as far away as Australia. In honour of his inimitable influence on the fashion landscape as we now know it, here we trace his life – and 70-year-long career – through some of his most iconic quotes. Bursting onto the scene way back in the mid-1950s, the designer reshaped fashion through his forward-thinking, cosmos-inspired creations and his unique approach to building a label.
Today the fashion industry is mourning the loss of Italian couturier, Pierre Cardin, who passed away on Tuesday (Dec 29) at the age of 98.
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