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Pierre Cardin, born Pietro Costante Cardin (Sant'Andrea di Barbarana, 2 July 1922), is an Italian naturalized French stylist. Pietro Costante Cardin was born in Sant'Andrea di Barbarana, a hamlet of the Treviso municipality of San Biagio di Callalta, to a family of wealthy farmers who ended up in poverty after the First World War. Read the full biography

Pierre Cardin, born Pietro Costante Cardin (Sant'Andrea di Barbarana, 2 July 1922), is an Italian naturalized French stylist. Pietro Costante Cardin was born in Sant'Andrea di Barbarana, a hamlet of the Treviso municipality of San Biagio di Callalta, to a family of wealthy farmers who ended up in poverty after the First World War. It was poverty that pushed Pietro's parents to move to France in 1924. In 1936 the fourteen-year-old Pietro (whose name had by now been Frenchized into Pierre) began an apprenticeship with a tailor in Saint-Étienne; after a brief experience at Manby, a tailor in Vichy, in 1945 he arrived in Paris working first for Jeanne Paquin and then for Elsa Schiaparelli. First tailor of the Christian Dior house during its opening in 1947 (after being rejected by Cristobal Balenciaga), he participated in the success of the master who defined the New Look. In 1950 he founded his own fashion house, then ventured into high fashion in 1953. Cardin is known for his avant-garde style inspired by the space age. He prefers geometric shapes and patterns, often ignoring the female form. It progressed into unisex fashion, sometimes experimental and not always practical.