Biography of the great couturier Pierre Cardin

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The name of the great fashion designer Pierre Cardin is known to everyone who was at least a little interested in fashion or opened a glossy magazine. The man who turned the fashion world upside down, proving that the concept of "high fashion" is quite applicable to everyday clothes, and that you can be fashionable every day. Many of his actions caused universal condemnation at one time, but it was time that put everything in its place.

Biography of Pierre Cardin

Mater was born in Italy on July 2, 1922, but lived in this country for quite a bit. When it became clear what kind of policy Benito Mussolini was pursuing, the whole family, together with little Pierre, left Italy and moved to France. The future fashion designer was a rather late child. When he was born, his father was already 60, and his mother was 42 years old. For a long time, winemaking was considered a family business, but already matured Pierre did not want to follow in the footsteps of his parents and became seriously interested in theater.

Subsequently, Monsieur Cardin will not remember too much about his life in the familywarmly. Already at 18 he will leave his home, and at 25 he will become an orphan. It was necessary to earn money somehow, and for some time he worked as an apprentice in a sewing studio, where he learned many tricks of the future profession.

Theater and Pierre Cardin

Interest in the theater resulted in the first noticeable stage in his creative biography - he worked as a production designer in the film "Beauty and the Beast". Then the future couturier goes to work at that time the already famous fashion house of Christian Dior. In an interview, Cardin will speak of Dior as his complete opposite. Unlike Christian, who had his patrons and financiers, Pierre Cardin achieved everything with his own work and subsequently began to finance many projects himself.

When Cardin's own fashion house finally started working, he immediately began to attract attention, introducing something new, experimental into fashion trends. It is with the collections of Pierre Cardin that the emergence of the avant-garde style is associated. He was a real inventor at that time, constantly trying new forms, playing with colors.

The real sensation was made by an open show, which Monsieur Cardin held not in the Haute Couture House, as was customary then, but right in the ready-made clothing store. It was then that he was turned against by representatives of the profession, and that is when he was expelled from the High Fashion Syndicate. But it was a real revolution in the history of the industry.

Since then, fashionable dresses and stylish suits from famous fashion designers began to appear in department stores and other stores, and ready-to-wear clothing itself has becomemore affordable.

Inspiration

At one time, the muses of the great fashion designer were many famous women. You can remember Marlene Dietrich (for some time he was her costume designer), and the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. The real love of Pierre Cardin was the popular actress Jeanne Moreau. They lived with her for about four years, but they carried warm feelings through their whole lives and even now remain very close friends.

The name of Monsieur Cardin is now more than the name of a great couturier. The master did not limit himself to the development of fashionable clothes. He created furniture, was engaged in interior design and perfumery, collaborated with automobile companies. He bought a theater and has a chain of restaurants at his disposal. Moreover, he is the owner of an entire village in which he built several hotels, shops, cafes. And now, when he has free time, he visits this favorite place with pleasure.

"I have always been an ambitious person," says Pierre Cardin in his interviews. - “but over the years you realize that real happiness is when you go to your goal.”