In 1958 he launched a ready-to-wear collection at Parisian department store Printemps, a first step towards what in our times has been called "fashion democratisation" that shocked Paris' fashion elite at the time. His fame quickly spread all over the world: in 1957 he went to Japan with news photographer Yoshi Takata and spent a month teaching three-dimensional cutting at Bunka Fashion College (his class included Hanae Mori and Kenzo Takada). The latter featured architectural pieces such a pleated coat that sold very well in the United States and helped him getting noticed by fashion editors such as Carmel Snow and Diana Vreeland. Three years later he founded his own fashion house and rose to fame after launching in 1953 his first collection. Excelling in mathematics and geometry, Cardin soon showed a special skill for constructing impeccable dresses. He then moved to Paris, worked at Paquin and Schiaparelli's maisons and joined Dior's in 1947. During World War II he served in the Red Cross.
Together with André Courrèges and Paco Rabanne, Pierre Cardin was considered in the '60s at the forefront of Space Age fashion.īorn in 1922 in San Biagio di Callalta, near Venice, Pietro Cardin moved to France when his family fled from Fascism. The Fine Arts Academy announced yesterday that fashion designer Pierre Cardin, one of its members since the early '90s, had died at 98.
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