Pierre Cardin obituary
Pierre Cardin with some of his famous dresses at the Pierre Cardin Museum in Paris in 2014. Photograph: Jacques Brinon/AP The fashion designer Pierre Cardin, who has died aged 98, had a technician’s obsession with the malleable properties of wool cloth and the possibilities of cut. He was not inspired by the female body but, as he admitted, inserted women into architectural carapaces. “My clothes aren’t fun,” he said, “they are worrying; it’s like listening to contemporary music.” Indeed, one of his last major creations was not...
Source: theguardian.com