Cardin
Proper noun
Meaning
Cardin (plural Cardins)
A surname.
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I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn't actually buy it, but I fell in love with it.
Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.
According to Cardin, who has dressed some of the world's most beautiful women, the round forms are inspired by 'the body of a woman' and 'everything is absolutely sensual'.
Cardin got his break in 1945 when he was hired as an assistant in Paris' House of Paquin, which led to to a start in designing costumes for the 1946 film Beauty and the Beast.
In this 2016 file photo, French fashion designer Pierre Cardin acknowledges applause after a show to mark 70 years of his creations, in Paris.
By the late 1980s and early ’90s, Cardin was revisiting his fashion archives to issue variations of 1960s space-age designs.