An exhibition of Pierre Cardin’s most significant creations from the ’60s and ’70s.
Pierre Cardin presented his first prêt-à-porter collection in 1959. Since then his motto – create – has taken the form of a proliferation of vinyl shorts, maxi capes over miniskirts, asymmetric, circular and three-dimensional dresses. Suits without collars for men (such as his famous Beatles jackets) and huge collars for women, dresses with clean lines that seem able to stand up on their own; in harmony with contemporary movements in abstract art.
“High Fashion is a laboratory in which we can study shapes and volumes,” says Cardin. A laboratory which produces futuristic “spacesuits” for him and her with hats, helmets and plexiglass masks, all revealing his omnivorous talent. Interviewed by David Leitch for the Sunday Times in 1984, Pierre Cardin did not hesitate to say that his greatest ambitious was to walk in the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon. His daring experiments for “the world of tomorrow” and his ongoing research into the avant-garde consecrate him as the true originator of all the trends, not only in the fashions of his day but in design, distribution strategies and diversification of design and production.
An exhibition of Pierre Cardin’s most significant creations from the ’60s and ’70s.
Pierre Cardin presented his first prêt-à-porter collection in 1959. Since then his motto – create – has taken the form of a proliferation of vinyl shorts, maxi capes over miniskirts, asymmetric, circular and three-dimensional dresses. Suits without collars for men (such as his famous Beatles jackets) and huge collars for women, dresses with clean lines that seem able to stand up on their own; in harmony with contemporary movements in abstract art.
“High Fashion is a laboratory in which we can study shapes and volumes,” says Cardin. A laboratory which produces futuristic “spacesuits” for him and her with hats, helmets and plexiglass masks, all revealing his omnivorous talent. Interviewed by David Leitch for the Sunday Times in 1984, Pierre Cardin did not hesitate to say that his greatest ambitious was to walk in the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon. His daring experiments for “the world of tomorrow” and his ongoing research into the avant-garde consecrate him as the true originator of all the trends, not only in the fashions of his day but in design, distribution strategies and diversification of design and production.