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The museum highlights Cardin’s architectural approach to clothing, which he viewed as sculptures
Hundreds of creations by late designer Pierre Cardin will fill his Venice palazzo later this month in a new museum celebrating the cutting-edge vision of fashion’s futurist.
A costume ball Thursday evening at Cardin’s Venetian home of nearly 40 years, the Palazzo Bragadin, will kick off the museum opening, scheduled for Sept. 13.
The Italian-born French couturier, who died in December 2020 at 98, was a stalwart of 1960s fashion with his unisex, space-age designs that sent shockwaves through youth culture from Paris to London’s Carnaby Street.
Knit minidresses with bold geometric patterns, unexpected cut-outs, and synthetic fabrics cemented Cardin’s reputation as a modernist in tune with the decade.
Cardin bought the Venice palazzo in 1981 and used it as a retreat and a place to refuel his imagination, said his nephew, Rodrigo Basilicati-Cardin, chief executive of the label.
“There is an almost 1,000-square-meter space, with important ceiling heights, what better setting to display at least a hundred outfits?” he said during a tour.
Around 130 Pierre Cardin creations dating from 1951 to 2018 are displayed across the Venetian palazzo he used as a retreat and source of inspiration
The museum aims to remind visitors of Cardin’s innovative design sensibility, which emerged after he worked under Elsa Schiaparelli and Christian Dior before launching his own line in 1950.
He sought to democratize fashion with a ready-to-wear line in 1959, a controversial move that temporarily got him kicked out of the French haute couture governing body but was soon copied by rivals.
Around 130 outfits, dating from 1951 to 2018, fill the palazzo’s rooms. They include a 1971 emerald green knit tunic with dramatic side cut-outs, a 1991 black velvet gown with an oversized taffeta rose, and a 1963 silver silk minidress with a honeycomb pattern.
Basilicati-Cardin said his uncle viewed clothing as sculpture.
“His entire life was based on structures; all his garments are architectural, nothing purely fluid,” he said. “He considered his dresses as sculptures.” — Agence France Presse
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