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88-Year-Old Pierre Cardin Returns To Paris Runway After 10 Years (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

First Posted: 09/29/10 04:18 PM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 06:50 PM ET

French designer Pierre Cardin feted the 60th anniversary of his brand with his first Parisian runway show in ten years. WWD caught up with Cardin beforehand who explained his inspiration: "Showing that the brand still exists as a creative force--that's what drives me. And I notice that what I do early on becomes commercial some 15 or 20 years later. I'm always ahead of the curve."

The 88-year-old Cardin told the fashion newspaper that he would never hand over his label to a younger designer, explaining, "No, because I have five people sketching for me who are very young. And I think the young designers of today are less avant-garde than I am. I'm still in good shape, I work every day."

Here are some of Cardin's duds from 1969.

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French designer Pierre Cardin feted the 60th anniversary of his brand with his first Parisian runway show in ten years. WWD caught up with Cardin beforehand who explained his inspiration: "Showing tha...
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Mimi Krier
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12:52 AM on 10/05/2010
The Paris city is the mecca of fashion world.This I got to know during my hop on hop off paris bus tour last week.
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selenasade
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12:57 PM on 10/03/2010
He should have just brought back 1969.
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reluctantcougar
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12:53 AM on 10/03/2010
I appreciate that Cardin hasn't put his models in 6 inch stilettos that many runway models have trouble walking in. The models from 1969 really rocked the pilgrim shoes!
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ena
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05:59 PM on 10/02/2010
I thought he'd passed years ago.
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orange county man
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01:48 PM on 10/01/2010
Good for you Pete. You go pal!
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Pharmachick
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04:49 AM on 10/01/2010
Pierre Cardin was an undisputed genius of fashion.

it is, however; rather sad to see these derivative re-inventions from the 60s. Particularly from a person that was previously considered such a luminary.
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WillCooney
Democrat dagnabit! Now leave me alone!
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12:55 AM on 10/01/2010
Lots of stuff from 1969 ripped of by Project Runaway designers this season!
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ABXNOMORE
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08:32 AM on 09/30/2010
At the time, those fashions were pretty cool. I enjoyed looking at them and the memories.
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dysfashional
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01:33 AM on 09/30/2010
This was a bizarre collection over 200 looks and it had me wondering if he Pierre Cardin was on dementia meds or maybe I was watching Zoolander. It was the David Lynch of collections for Spring Summer 11
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Mrs Putrid Festring
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01:02 AM on 09/30/2010
honey, i p'd laughing at the music. but i want one of those slickers.
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PelePele10
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09:22 PM on 09/29/2010
I just think about that Seinfeld episode where George's parents start spending their savings and Frank Costanza comes into a restaurant where George and Jerry's parents are dining with a nice suit on, pulls out his tie and exclaims..'it's a Pierre Cardin'! Way too funny.
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Telling it the way I see it.
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06:40 PM on 09/29/2010
I think it's amazing that he is still going strong....
In 2001 Vanity Fair did a story (Cover) Photographers (still working) over 80! Creativity/art/fashion are a passion that keep our hearts moving and our souls giving...
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gettymuse
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06:36 PM on 09/29/2010
Hmm. It sort of looks like future wear and some fashions we'd like to forget from the past.
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Debbie338
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05:00 PM on 09/29/2010
It really is cool to see people over 80 getting out there and doing things. It really inspires me. I intend to die at 90 by getting hit by a truck while I'm training for a triathlon, not slipping away in my sleep rocking on my front porch.
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WillCooney
Democrat dagnabit! Now leave me alone!
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12:50 AM on 10/01/2010
I'm hoping that the newspaper headline reads, "Octogerian found shot to death in a seedy roadside motel. Teenage boyfriend claims he found his lover cheating on him with a younger boy." It's totally false but, it's what I'd like to see in the obituary column!
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lexingtonKY
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04:37 PM on 09/29/2010
He got out of his rocking chair for that tat?
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