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French fashion designer Pierre Cardin, who died on December 29 at the age of 98, was buried in a coffin made according to his own designs.
The fashion legend said goodbye in a closed-door ceremony at the Montmartre cemetery in Paris on Saturday. Cardin was buried alongside André Oliver, a friend and colleague who died in 1993, the AFP news agency said, citing a statement from the family.
The coffin was decorated faithfully to his will, Next to it was also buried a sword, the edge of which was reminiscent of the edge of scissors, and its hilt was adorned with a needle, a spool of thread, and a thimble.
A mourning mass in commemoration of the fashion designer is expected to be held in Paris in January.
The avant-garde fashion designer, maker of the first ready-to-wear garments, died at the age of 98 in an American hospital in Neuilly, near Paris.
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