10.2 C
London
Thursday, March 28, 2024
HomeFashionFashion changes too fast these days: Pierre Cardin

Fashion changes too fast these days: Pierre Cardin

Date:

Related stories

Styles notes with Neelam: East meets West

  HOW WOMEN ARE CONFIDENTLY EMBRACING A BLEND OF BOTH...

Gucci revives classics to regain edge

Gucci is revisiting 1960s handbags and other classics in...

Britain’s most fashionable man? Vogue hails Prince Charles

His daughters-in-law Kate and Meghan are regularly lauded for...

India’s garment workers cover bosses’ lockdown losses

From unpaid overtime to wage cuts, Indian garment workers...

TODAY’S fashion designers change styles much too fast, partly due to twice-yearly collections, making it harder to create couture that lasts for years, designer Pierre Cardin said on Tuesday (November 9).
 
In Tokyo for a show co-sponsored by a Japanese department store, the 88-year-old doyen of French fashion also said that it is now much harder for designers than when he first started in the business roughly 60 years ago.
 
“After the war, there were very few designers. Now there are so many designers around the world, in every country. It is impossible to change the fashions every year, every six months,” he told a news conference.
 
“There are lots of designs that are very beautiful, crazy, fantastic on the eyes, but they are not making fashion for tomorrow. You can see it anywhere but four or five years later, no fashion.”
 
Cardin also said that when he launched his own label in 1950 he was told that what he was doing was “impossible” and that only belief in himself and obsession carried him through.
 
“At the time I was told that trying to make what I did was like trying to walk on the moon – impossible. It was my strategy to believe that one day a man goes up,” he said.
 
“My work was like an addiction. That’s why I’ve been able to do it for so long.”
 
Cardin has become a household name on products around the world from couture clothing to alarm clocks. He was the first Western couturier to turn to Japan as a high fashion market in the late 1950s and later communist China in 1975.
 
The designer was expelled from the Chambre Syndicale – the monitoring body of Haute Couture in Paris – for launching a ready-to-wear collection in 1959, but was soon reinstated.

Subscribe

- Never miss a story with notifications

- Gain full access to our premium content

- Browse free from up to 5 devices at once

Latest stories

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

five × three =