Pierre Cardin is a French high fashion designer born on July 2, 1922

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Pierre Cardin is a French high fashion designer born on July 2, 1922, in San Biagio di
Callalta, Italy (near Venice). Cardin became interested in fashion early. He eventually
went to work for a tailor in Vichy, France. There, he began to hone the skills that would
make him one of the most successful designers of the 20th century.
Cardin moved to Paris in 1945. During his first five
years in France’s capital city, Cardin jumped rapidly
from job to job. He found work in the Paquin and Schiaperelli fashion houses. By
1946 Cardin began work at Christian Dior’s newly opened fashion house. Cardin
is credited with helping to design Dior’s “New Look,” a style of dress intended to
emphasize femininity in women’s clothing after the period of women taking on
traditionally masculine roles during World War II.
Pierre Cardin left Dior to start his own company in 1950. He started out by
designing clothing for stage productions, but quickly built up a client base
and was soon looking outside France for inspiration, being one of the first fashion
designers to travel to the Far East looking for Eastern influences.
In 1959, Cardin created a ready-to-wear line for women being sold in the
Paris department store Printemps. At the time, haute couture designers worked
exclusively for private clients, for whom clothes were custom-made, so Cardin’s
decision to make haute couture fashion available to people other than private
clients was a first for a prominent French designer.
In the decades since then, the Pierre Cardin fashion house has grown into
an empire. Designing couture, jewellery, accessories, furniture and perfumes.
Cardin has collaborated with automobile and aircraft manufacturers and
has even designed uniforms for cabin crew.
There is no denying that Pierre Cardin is one of the most influential fashion
designers of his or any era. Still working, designing, and licensing new products,
Cardin resides in Paris and continues to own his company.
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Pierre Cardin Iconic designer since 1960...
timeless, elegance, always.
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