Forty-five years ago people said no one would be talking about Pierre Cardin in two years and they were quite wrong. Those were the words of Dior and Saint-Laurent.
I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.
I had 27 boutiques around the world at the time of de Gaulle, but we closed them because it bothered licensees.
I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.
I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.
Intelligent women work nowadays, they drive cars, and the cars are smaller and smaller, while the dresses at Dior are bigger and bigger. It's very beautiful, but it's not fashion-it's costume.
My name is more important than myself.
The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!
The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin.
They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me.
We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.
Women wanted to party, to dance, to amuse themselves, there was a sexy side. But now nudity is everywhere, sex is everywhere.
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