French fashion designer Pierre Cardin
appears at the end of his Men’s Spring-Summer 2013 collection, for the
Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, PARIS (AFP) – The first couturier
to put men on the Paris catwalks back in 1958, style veteran Pierre
Cardin earned fond applause, if not critical acclaim, Sunday at a
comeback show on the eve of his 90th birthday. Pierre Cardin is the last
active survivor of the great postwar French fashion houses, the
Italian-born Cardin is today owner of a sprawling luxury empire, but his
catwalk shows are few and far between, his last in Paris a women’s line
in 2010. Faithful to the space-age theme Pierre Cardin has mined on and
off since the 1960s, his men’s look featured broad-shouldered,
sleeveless tunics in navy felt, wool tartan or diving suit neoprene with
futuristic visor shades. Pierre Cardin jackets had vertical slashed
panels at the back, or were adorned with twists of black rubber tubing,
like a prickly hedgehog across the shoulders.TO READ THE FULL STORY Go to…. Straitstimes.com
