Pioneering designer Pierre Cardin dies at 98
French fashion designer Pierre Cardin, whose futuristic space-inspired looks upended catwalk styles in the 1960s and 70s, has died at the age of 98, France's Fine Arts Academy said. Emer McCarthy reports.
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Fashion designer Pierre Cardin, who died Tuesday at 98, had an inventive artistic sensibility tempered by business sense. Take a look at his life in photos.
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