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Black Hole Dress- Pierre Cardin 2009
Pierre Cardin at 86 presented his intergalactic and non-descript 2009 Fashion show, from his fabulous Southern France home.
Pierre Cardin showed why he is one of the founders of the 60's Futurist Fashion which revolutionized the Fashion Industry in the 60's. There was a model wearing kaleidoscopic pear-shaped attire. There was also a black-and-white interplanetary number featured that could be called the Black Hole dress. In addition, there was a golden dress that resembles an accordion and a pair of red and blue felt jackets that looked like a brightly-colored insect.
Pierre Cardin, along with Paco Rabanne and Andre Courreges created the 60's Space Age designs that defined a generation. Cardin took the unisex jumpsuit and produced a wardrobe for the future and unveiled his "Cosmocorps" line in 1964. Cardin's embrace of science and technology, together with the notion of progress was expressed in his Space Age collections. His clothes were often experimental, and not practical. This is actually the difference between Art, and Fashion. Artists like Pierre Cardin aren't necessarily concerned with the mundane interests of everyday life.
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This Space Age or Futuristic fashion notion of progress is based on the original Futurist theories first expressed by the Italian futurists. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which he published in 1909. Marinetti expressed a passionate loathing of everything old, especially political and artistic tradition. "We want no part of it, the past", he wrote, "we the young and strong Futurists!"... The Futurists admired speed, technology, youth and violence, the car, the airplane and the industrial city, all that represented the technological triumph of humanity over nature, and they were passionate nationalists. (See Umberto Boccioni's 1910 "The City Rises". Compare it to the dress in the slideshow with the swirling oranges, and reds). The work attempts to convey feelings and sensations experienced in time, using new means of expression, including "lines of force", which were intended to convey the directional tendencies of objects through space. These lines of force are the patterns in Pierre Cardin's 2009 collection in the slideshow below. Pierre Cardin is referencing Futurist theory. This is very avant-garde, and is a prime example of his legacy as a designer.
The photo of the green dress in the slideshow is a classic vintage piece, most resembling his collections from 67-69. The pieces of the late 60's all reflect his personal vision of fashion - the future. It is extra-small size with extremely slim cut. True Space Age style, it has elements inspired by science fiction of the time. It is unnaturally short. Again his clothes aren't met to be necessarily practical, that's not the point. Its Art. Artists deserve this creative license.
Pierre Cardin perfected immaculate, sleek tailoring, in the 60's. His Space Age clothes from the 60's had the trappings of science-fiction and space travel. The world gasped at his space age 3-D shift, his astronaut men's look and his "white breasts" dress. He made dresses out of vinyl, hammered metal rings, broaches of carpenters nails, and diamonds. The clothes shrunk in size as the patterns grew. Knitted cat suits, tight leather trousers, close-fitting helmets and batwing jumpsuits were all in his collections.
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