Renowned French clothier Pierre Cardin dies at 98

New Delhi: Renowned French designer Pierre Cardin, who was hailed for his avant-garde kinds within the Nineteen Sixties and 70s, handed away on the age of 98 on Tuesday.
Cardin, who was born on July 7, 1922 in Venice, Italy, however raised in central France, moved to Paris in 1945, finally working for Christian Dior who had simply opened a enterprise, Euro News reported.

“A day of great sadness for our whole family, Pierre Cardin is no more. The great couturier that he was, crossed the century, leaving France and the world a unique artistic heritage in fashion”, Euro News quoted Cardin’s household assertion.
“Supreme consecration, he is finally the first couturier to enter the Academy of Fine Arts, making fashion recognized as an art in its own right. Today, this is evidenced by his academician’s sword, which he himself created and on which are engraved the symbols of his success,” his household added within the assertion.

Cardin established his personal firm and designed masks and costumes for the theatre, earlier than launching a line of girls’s clothes in a division retailer. This was then adopted by a males’s boutique retailer.
He licensed his model title which has been used all through the world, placing his title on merchandise as numerous as ties, cigarettes, perfumes and mineral water. He had launched himself into furnishings design in addition to the lodge and restaurant enterprise with Maxim’s, Euro News reported.