Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Pierre Cardin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French designer Pierre Cardin.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Pierre Cardin

Pierre Cardin, born Pietro Costante Cardino, was an Italian-born naturalised-French fashion designer. He is known for what were his avant-garde style and Space Age designs. He preferred geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical. He founded his fashion house in 1950 and introduced the "bubble dress" in 1954.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.
They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me.
We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.
I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.
The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin.
My name is more important than myself.
Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient.
When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself. — © Pierre Cardin
When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.
They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me
I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.
My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something. — © Pierre Cardin
My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.
I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.
The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!
The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.
I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.
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