One of the Italian fashion designer Pierre Cardin closest associates, Jean-Pascal Hesse, has just released a book celebrating the contribution of the designer not only to the fashion world but also to the art world.
While we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Pierre Cardin couture house, this book comes as a retrospective of his work.
The Italian born Cardin is famous for his avant-garde style and his innovative designs (like the “bubble dress” in 1954). He introduced an architectural fashion with a futurist sensibility through his geometric shapes and motifs. The avant-garde designer advanced into unisex fashions, and was a …

The vividly illustrated coffeetable-size book ‘Carried Away: All About Bags. Originally published by “Union centrale des Arts decoratifs le passage Paris-New York Editions Hermès”, and now by Editions Hermès and Vendome Press, the coffeetable book is a true must have for every connoisseur of the most coveted fashion accessory today, the bag. Carried Away: All About Bags contains 340 fascinating and comprehensive pages describing, into to the finest detail, the cultural and social history of the bag.
Carried Away: All About Bags was published in 2004 to coincide with the exhibition “Le cas du sac” that took place at the Musee …