Photo: AP / Jacques Brinon
PARIS - French couturier Pierre Cardin, who made his name by selling designer clothes to the masses, and his fortune by being the first to exploit that name as a brand for selling everything from cars to perfume, died on Tuesday aged 98. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Cardin drew scorn and admiration from... read full story
"It's all the same to me whether I am doing sleeves for dresses or table legs,"
Photo: In this Nov.13, 2014 file photo, French fashion designer Pierre Cardin poses with dresses behind during the inauguration of the Pierre Cardin Museum in Paris. France's Academy of Fine Arts says Pierre Cardin, the French designer whose Space Age style was among the iconic looks of 20th-century fashion, has died at 98. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)