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The Italian designer, naturalized French, Pierre Cardin died at the age of 98 in the Neuilly hospital, in France; the news came from his family. His real name was Pietro Cardin, and he was born in Italy in Sant’Andrea di Barbarana, in the Treviso area, in 1922, to a family of wealthy landowners who went bankrupt during the First World War and, for this reason, in 1924 moved to France.
Cardin is considered one of the pioneers of ready-to-wear, that is, of tailoring, as was customary until the 1950s and 1960s, and is famous for avant-garde clothing inspired by the space age, from geometric shapes and experimental fabrics, such as plastic and vinyl; he is defined as a “futuristic” designer, along with Paco Rabanne and André Courregès.
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When, in 1947, the French designer Christian Dior opened his studio, Cardin became his first tailor and participated in the invention of the New Look, the style born after World War II, which enhanced the elegance and shape of the hourglass. of the female body, with jackets fitted at the waist and wide skirts. In 1950 he founded his eponymous fashion company and from 1953 he started doing it too. haute coutureFrench, Haute Couture, meaning tailor-made suits with precious materials and workmanship. In 1954 she invented the so-called “bubble dress”, probably her most famous dress: “balloon”, narrower at the waist and with a bulge in the skirt.
A balloon dress by Pierre Cardin during the fashion show celebrating his 30-year career, Paris, November 30, 2016
(AP Photo / Christophe Ena)
Cardin always said that he was inspired by oval shapes and in the 1980s he bought the extravagant Palais Bulles (The Palace of Bubbles) on the French Riviera, designed by architect Lovag Antti, where everything from the outside to the inside, It is designed in spherical shapes. . He then put it up for sale in 2015 for 400 million euros. In 1981 he bought the famous Maxim’s restaurant in Paris, a symbol of the Belle Époque.
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