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The architect of the body, Pierre Cardin, is featured in a major retrospective at SCAD. Source: Matthew Miller, SCAD, Vimeo

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Looking to break the fashion system: revolutionary or continual consistency?

Fashion commentators are almost unanimous: the current system is obsolete, fashion is dead, everything must change, etc. The following thoughts all stem from the same basket of eggs: pressure on artistic directors, too great number of collections to digest, and in particular the fact that fashion weeks as they are currently conceived are...

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Eternal futurist of fashion Pierre Cardin opens new museum at 92

"That coat has been round the world. That's when I actually started to make some money!" Pierre Cardin says, stopping in front of a flared, red design among the first exhibits at his new museum in Paris. One of the last survivors of the great post-war French fashion houses, Cardin, at 92, still heads a sprawling business empire. "Back then I...

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Jean Paul Gaultier: One-of-a-kind designer who 'wrote the rules'

Exuberant enfant terrible of fashion. Flamboyant showman. Madonna's pointy bra designer. Cult TV star and incorrigible Franglais speaker. Everyone has their own take on designer Jean Paul Gaultier, who bows out of ready-to-wear fashion in Paris later on Saturday, in what promises to be one of the shows of the decade. Pieces such as his sailor's...

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Pierre Cardin celebrates his 60th anniversary of fashion shows

Pierre Cardin held his first high fashion catwalk show since 1996 last night in his own restaurant, in Paris for his label Maxim's de Paris. The show marked Cardin's 60th anniversary of his first own fashion label show and was cleverly orchestrated to occur before Paris's fashion couture week. The men's and women's collection, named 'Maxim's the...

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Pierre Cardin for sale for €1bn

French fashion house Pierre Cardin, named after it's 88 year-old eponymous designer, is up for sale. After more than six decades in fashion and a previously failed sale, Cardin is ready to sell his business for €1 billion. According to the Wall Street Journal, a recent estimate valued the business at €200 million—but it remains unconfirmed due...