He dressed the famous, but he was also a licensing pioneer, a merchant to the general public with his name on a cornucopia of products
Pierre Cardin with Diane von Furstenberg during an event at the Rockerfeller Center in New York on June 3, 2007. Cardin, the visionary designer and licensing pioneer who invented the business of fashion as it is conducted today, has died in France. He was 98.
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