Jean Paul Gaultier was still a high school student when, in the spring of 1970, he joined Pierre Cardin's studio.
“
It was the day of my 18th birthday,
remembers the designer.
My mother was waiting for my return from school and said to me: “You are going to celebrate your birthday at M. Cardin's, he answered your mail, he is expecting you for an interview this afternoon”.
Very intimidated, I asked him to come with me.
She stayed at the foot of the shop in Place Beauvau.
I went up to the 6th floor to meet Cardin.
The apprentice stylist, self-taught and inexperienced, is hired on the spot.
He works part time, dividing his days between the classrooms and the fashion house.
In just a few months, he had done everything, designed extravagant glasses (which would all be made and sold), imagined crazy furniture in inflatable plastic (too far-fetched to be edited).
At Cardin, nothing is forbidden: if the founder loves (the object, the garment, the accessory), it is born.
To read also:
Pierre Cardin, the last witness of the fashion of the XXth century
It was
This article is for subscribers only.
You still have 74% to discover.
Subscribe: 1 € the first month
Can be canceled at any time
Enter your email
Already subscribed?
Log in
/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/2MBYY5MPFZDINCXQVTTAHTE7FM.jpg)
