In a career spanning more than 60 years, Cardin drew scorn and admiration from fellow fashion designers for his brash business sense. Couturiers in that club were forbidden at that time to show outside their Paris salons, let alone in department stores. He also blazed a trail outside France long before other fashion multinationals in search of new markets. And just two years after the Berlin Wall came down, in 1991, a Cardin fashion show on Moscow's Red Square attracted a crowd of 200,000. Cardin also expanded into new businesses, buying fabled Paris restaurant Maxim`s in the 1980s and opening replica outlets around the world.

Source: dna December 29, 2020 13:48 UTC