He had been friends with Pierre Cardin for fifty years.
Author, composer and performer Jean-Michel Jarre tells us about his bond with the couturier.
“I am very saddened by Pierre's disappearance: I thought he would be over 100 years old.
We think that the people we love are eternal ... And Pierre is, since he will remain as one of the flagship of Futurism.
I have known Pierre for a very long time.
It was like a spiritual father at the start of my career.
Pierre was the first to use my music for his shows, at a time when this was not done.
As early as 1971, five years before “Oxygène”
(Editor's note: the concept album that made Jarre a star)
, he had heard one of my music and had chosen it to accompany one of his futuristic parades.
That year too, he introduced me
to Bob Wilson's
Le Regard du sourd show
at Espace Cardin, which was a great source of inspiration for me.
"
“We became very friends, Pierre and I, and we
followed each other
with a lot of affection,” continues the musician.
I was the first to play in post-Mao China, at the same time that Pierre was the first to export there and Bertolucci was filming
The Last Emperor there
... Pierre had a
dirty kid
side.
, always curious, always innovative.
This created a link between us: we shared the same interest in new technologies, the same interest in tomorrow rather than
yesterday
.
We thought that in the year 2000, cars would fly ... This utopian vision of the future brought us very close.
Pierre did not live in nostalgia at all, he was resolutely turned towards the future.
It was the secret of your eternal intellectual youth.
Pierre was optimistic by subversion.
"