Fashion legend Pierre Cardin inaugurates Paris museum

French fashion designer Pierre Cardin inaugurated his Paris museum on Thursday, which showcases his avant garde and space age designs spanning the decades. He developed the first line of clothes for men by a courtier and continually changed and expanded the world of fashion with his creations for generations. He is considered a living legend in the fashion industry.

At 92 years old, Pierre Cardin is still at work. Cardin was a pioneer of French fashion in 50s and is still pushing the boundaries today as the oldest designer in the business.


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Now, a museum in Paris has been opened in his honor, to showcase the avant garde and space age designs that made his name.

"There are more than 7,000 designs, but I didn't sell them all because I always found them too unique and I couldn't sell them, so I had to keep them, and that formed the basis for this museum," Cardin said.

Playful, colourful and at times eccentric, these haute-couture designs showcase Cardin's fascination with the future and his tireless experimentation.




"He can go into a shop, take a piece of plastic and make a band of fabrics," museum curator Renee Taponier said. "There are jackets here made from cake tins. Simply put, everything interests him, not just the materials made for fashion, but all materials."

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But despite his contributions to French fashion, the nonagenarian readily admits that he no longer dominates the catwalk today.

His hope is that his vision of fashion survives when he is gone, leaving a foundation for a younger designers to build on.

"There has to be an end," Cardin said, "and I leave my work to those who want to be inspired. It's a legacy to the world, and to the fashion designer."

Pierre Cardin's legacy and name is up for grabs, although the price is is pretty steep. The designer is selling his fashion empire for the futuristic sum of one billion euros.