Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pierre Cardin is the Parisian fashion designer who first put models in crash helmets, matched short skirts with colored stockings and more recently dressed men and women in futuristic space suits. Fashion experts rank him among the top five trend-setting designers, along with Yves St. Laurent, Courreges, Ungaro and the House of Dior. As haute couture's top entrepreneur, however, Cardin has no equal...
...shocked the French fashion world when, in 1962, he began to sell copies of his creations. He argued that ready-to-wear clothing manufacturers were already copying Paris creations, "so why shouldn't we run the show?" Today he heads a marketing organization that sells clothes to men, women and children in dozens of countries on five continents...
Countless Copies. This week in Paris, Cardin will hold his first 1969 show of the women's fashions that will later flow out, in the form of countless copies, to the U.S., Brazil, Japan, Australia, Germany and other countries. Skirts for day wear will be ankle-length and flaring. Like Cardin-designed men's wear first marketed in more than 100 U.S. stores last fall, the women's line will be sold in department and specialty stores next fall. Last month Cardin signed a deal with Gunther Oppenheim of Modelia to market Cardin women's clothes...
...Kinds of Women. The engravings, as usual fully subscribed in advance in editions of 50 each, have been assembled into an exhibit titled simply "347 Gravures" and mounted simultaneously in Paris and Chicago; the show is just finishing a six-week run at the Galerie Louise Leiris, but by popular demand The Art Institute of Chicago has extended it for another month. The engravings represent what may well be the most exhaustive study of genitals, mainly female, ever seen in legitimate art galleries. Says his longtime dealer and friend, Daniel-Henry Kahn-weiler: "His work has always been profoundly autobiographical...
...Picasso's themes, that of artist and model, is omnipresent. In one engraving after another, men representing painters-or voyeurs-stare at shamelessly naked women; occasionally they indulge in intercourse with their ever-compliant models, palette and brushes still in hand. Reflecting the artist's Spanish heritage, a whole series of moody prints shows grandees on horseback abducting maidens. Satyrs abound...