Page 4 - Bubble Palace News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Source: Highlights Cardin was the first designer to sell clothes collections in department stores in the late 1950s. He once said it would not bother him to have his initials, PC, etched into rolls of toilet paper, and he was also the inspiration for a phallus-like perfume flask. In 1945, he made theatrical masks and costumes for Jean Cocteau's film, 'Beauty and the Beast'. Paris: French couturier Pierre Cardin, who made his name by selling designer clothes to the masses, and his fortune by being the first to exploit that name as a brand for selling everything from cars to perfume, died on T...

Full article In a career spanning more than 60 years, Cardin drew scorn and admiration from fellow fashion designers for his brash business sense French couturier Pierre Cardin, who made his name by selling designer clothes to the masses, and his fortune by being the first to exploit that name as a brand for selling everything from cars to perfume, died on Tuesday, aged 98. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Cardin drew scorn and admiration from fellow fashion designers for his brash business sense. He maintained that he built his busi...

Dec 30, 2020 Pierre Cardin, the visionary designer who clothed the elite but also transformed the business of fashion, reaching the masses by affixing his name to an outpouring of merchandise ranging from off-the-rack apparel to bath towels, has died in France. He was 98. His death was confirmed Tuesday by the French Academy of Fine Arts. He died at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside Paris, his family said, according to Agence France-Presse. “Fashion is not enough,” Cardin once told Eugenia Sheppard, the American newspaper columnist and fashion critic. “I ...

Pierre Cardin, father of fashion branding, dies at 98 Hits: 1186 PARIS--French couturier Pierre Cardin, who made his name by selling designer clothes to the masses, and his fortune by being the first to exploit that name as a brand for selling everything from cars to perfume, died on Tuesday aged 98. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Cardin drew scorn and admiration from fellow fashion designers for his brash business sense, and influenced catwalks with his space-age, futuristic bubble dresses and geometrical cuts and patterns. Cardin, who was a mentor to designers such as Je...

Pierre Cardin’s passion for Apollo XI and space The iconic designer, who passed away on December 29 at the age of 98, is the only civilian to have worn a moon mission space suit, reportedly used by Buzz Aldrin. French fashion designer Pierre Cardin. Pierre Cardin achieved fame and fortune as a fashion designer. Yet, his most cherished memory had nothing to do with glamour or the catwalk. “My most beautiful memory is wearing a spacesuit identical to Neil Armstrong’s,” Cardin once said in an interview. The French-Italian designer and entrepreneur, who died at age 98 on December 29, was ...