From the Espace Cardin at 1 avenue Gabriel (Paris 8th) which bears his name at Maxim's, rue Royale (Paris 8th), which hosted until the spring confinement the opening dinners of the gallery owner Thaddaeus Ropac and the Prada conferences which combine technology, intellect and artistry, Pierre Cardin, who passed away at the age of 98, is as much a figure in the world of art as of fashion.
On January 19 and 20, 2020, before the world turned into a pandemic, Prada Mode, a traveling club dedicated to culture and contemporary art, launched in 2018, transformed the three Maxim's floors into "
a cultural experience around the music of gastronomy and ... facial recognition "
.
These two worlds are intertwined in the life of the couturier and in the posthumous tributes paid to him and in which fashion people highlight the designer and the inventor.
As evidenced by the "fashion stylist" well known to readers of
Madame Figaro
,
Vogue
and
Harper's Bazaar
,
the Parisian Barbara Baumel
and whose top secret interior is a mix of Orientalism, 1960s design and history of the photography.
The reactions are therefore lively and immediate, multiple and collegial, as personal as they are academic, to the announcement of his death at the age of 98.
Laurent Petitgirard, Permanent Secretary, and the members of the Academy of Fine Arts
, expressed the great sadness caused by the death of their colleague Pierre Cardin, which occurred on December 29, 2020 at the age of 98 years.
“
Pierre Cardin was a member of the section of free members of the Academy, where he was elected on February 12, 1992 in the chair of Pierre Dux (1908-1990).
His disappearance is an immense loss for the Company in which he sat very regularly and actively.
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Pierre Cardin wanted to encourage artists by creating in 1993 five annual prizes awarded by the Academy of Fine Arts.
»B. Eymann Academy of Fine Arts
Along with his work as a creator, lover and patron of the fine arts, Pierre Cardin wanted to encourage artists by creating in 1993 five annual prizes awarded by the Académie des beaux-arts saluting the excellence of the career of young painters and sculptors. , architects, engravers and composers, under 35 years old. Pierre Cardin has always been very attentive to the winning artists thus rewarded
”.
On Wednesday January 10, 2001, it was to Pierre Cardin that Jeanne Moreau, the first woman elected to the Academy of Fine Arts, had asked to deliver her installation speech under the Cupola of the Palace of the Institut de France, joining thus the section of artistic creations in cinema and audiovisual.
Jeanne Moreau and Pierre Cardin in green clothes B. Eymann Academy of Fine Arts
Photographer Juliette Agnel
worked under the Cupola for the retrospective parade of Pierre Cardin's 70-year career.
“A memorable, unique, historical memory for both Pierre Cardin and the Académie des Beaux-Arts: the retrospective parade of his 70-year career, in the meeting room of the Institut de France, on November 30, 2016. J I loved being their photographer ”
.
A man of fashion, he wore the green coat with natural elegance.
Pierre Cardin wore the academician's green abit perfectly.
B. Eymann Academy of Fine Arts
Adriano Pedrosa, the artistic director of MASP (Museu de Arte de Sâo Paulo, Brazil)
underlined Pierre Cardin's crazy originality with one of his creations from 1968. A fervent posthumous tribute which followed by a few days that of the Filipino artist David Medalla (1942-2020) where the art historian chose to show it in the montage of the exhibition by Brazilian Lygia Clark (1920-1988) at Gallery Signals in London, in 1965.
Françoise Dumas, high priestess of art dinners
, posted her tribute from Comporta in Portugal.
Pierre Cardin poses there, forever, at a dinner at the Hotel Lancaster on November 29, 2017, next to the beautiful Farida Khelfa (the model of Azzedine Alaïa and Jean Paul Gaultier, and the wife of Henri Seydoux, he also inventor and collector) and the gallery owner Pierre Passebon, spitting image of the Russian writer Nicolas Gogol.
Nicolas Laugero, founding president of the Artistik Rezo association
, urban art collector, school director, ICART, and host of our
Art Club
du Figaro Live / Museum TV show:
“
A huge and affectionate thought for Pierre Cardin.
He gave me my chance when I was 20 and I arrived in Paris.
I finally worked for him for 18 years and managed his Espace Pierre-Cardin and the Festival de Lacoste until 2015. I owe him so much ...
He was one of the greatest couturiers and designers of the 20th century, a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, a great patron of culture ... He has been a great inspiration to me through the support he has always given to artists and to the Theater.
"
This photo dates from 2008 at the Beijing National Opera where he produced the
Marco Polo
show
by (dancers) Marie-Claude Pietragalla and Julien Derouault on the occasion of the Beijing Olympics ”.
Olivier Gabet, director of the Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris,
immediately published his regrets, with an extraordinary photo of an esthete who transformed a private plane in 1978 into a work of art: “Pierre Cardin 1922-2020.
Life as a total work of art.
"
Write a legend ...", with Cardin, the word is not overused - everything fascinates him, nothing escapes him - his curiosity is devouring for fashion, but also the object in all these forms, accessories, design , architecture itself, decor, plane ... We refer to the precursor book of Benjamin Loyauté, Pierre Cardin evolution (Editions Flammarion).
This vision of a fashion that goes beyond fashion, it speaks even more today in 2020, so we can measure what it meant in 1960 (...) Having met him at a happy dinner, I had said how much his work would make sense in the museum but his response was categorical enough to let me understand that one day there had been ... Immense regret because his generous vision of a creation that ignored categories would have its place at the Museum of Decorative Arts ”
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