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French fashion designer Pierre Cardin dies aged 98: family

Published: 29 Dec 2020 - 03:11 pm | Last Updated: 05 Nov 2021 - 07:13 pm
This file photo taken on July 9, 2016 shows France's fashion designer Pierre Cardin gesturing during the 2016-2017 fall/winter Haute Couture collection fashion show in Bonnieux, southeastern France. French fashion designer Pierre Cardin died on December 2

This file photo taken on July 9, 2016 shows France's fashion designer Pierre Cardin gesturing during the 2016-2017 fall/winter Haute Couture collection fashion show in Bonnieux, southeastern France. French fashion designer Pierre Cardin died on December 2

AFP

Paris: French fashion designer Pierre Cardin, hailed for his visionary creations but also for bringing stylish clothes to the masses, died Tuesday aged 98, his family told AFP.

Cardin who was born in Italy in 1922 but emigrated to France as a small child, died in a hospital in Neuilly in the west of Paris, his family said.