Rodrigo Basilicati-Cardin, CEO of the Pierre Cardin Group, Anne-Marie Descôtes, France's Ambassador to Italy, and the Mayor of Venice, Simone Venturini, attend a press conference at the Palazzo Bragadin, a former residence of the designer turned into a museum, in Venice
Hundreds of style-setting creations from the 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 help kick off the museum opening, scheduled for September 13.
Cardin, the Italian-born French couturier who died in December 2020 at the age of 98, was a stalwart of swinging 1960s fashion with his unisex, space-age designs that created youth-culture shockwaves from the boulevards of Paris to Carnaby Street in London.
Knit minidresses with bold geometric patterns, unexpected cut-outs and a penchant for synthetic fabrics cemented Cardin's reputation as a modernist in tune with the zeitgeist of the decade.
