French designer Pierre Cardin, who shook up the fashion world with his visionary creations but also turned his name into a money-spinning global brand, died on Tuesday, December 29, 2020, at 98 years old.
Cardin won renown in postwar Europe with his futurist designs that looked like they had arrived from another planet, but he also used his business acumen to create the first truly global fashion empire.
Cardin, who was born into a low-income family in northern Italy but became a France-based fashion superstar, died in a hospital in Neuilly in the west of Paris, his family said in a statement.
“It is a day of great sadness for all our family. Pierre Cardin is no more,” the statement said.
The statement further said that after a lifetime spanning a century, Cardin had left France and the world a “great, unique artistic heritage”, and not only in fashion.
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