Paris, Fashion and the Pierre Cardin Museum
Paris is Fashion!
Your trip to Paris, the Fashion capitol of the world, starts at the Pierre Cardin Museum! Yes, many of you know Paris as just this! Do you come to Paris to go to such stores a Louis Vuitton, Hermes or Dior? If you are a fashionista and want to discover something new next time in Paris, we highly recommend you take time out to visit the Pierre Cardin Museum right in the center of Paris.
Many of you don’t know about this museum and if you haven’t been to Paris in the last 4 years, this will be a new place to visit! In 2014, the Pierre Cardin Museum was opened on Rue St. Merri in the heart of the Marais just behind the Pompidou Modern Art museum.
Our selected Apartments close to the Pierre Cardin Museum
A Tribute to a man with a Dream!
This multi level museum will take you through the years of Pierre Cardin from the late 1950’s to today. You will be surrounded by rooms filled with mannequins dressed in some of his most inventive creations. The woman who takes care of the museum will be there to answer all of your questions. She has been working with Cardin since the age of 14 and has followed him throughout the years. You will learn how he started from nothing and made himself into what he is today.
Did you know that Pierre Cardin is 95 today and is still actively designing?! Our guide told us that he lives next to his workshops which are located next to the Elysees. Sometimes he gets up in the morning and goes over in his pyjamas to check out what is happening!
Not only Clothing
As you learn about how Cardin started and also learn that his family were immigrants from Italy, you realise that if you have a dream, it can come true! The museum also has a nice collection of some of the furniture that he designed throughout the years. His lacquer drawers and desks show the influence that Japan had on him so many years ago.
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Learn about the world of Haute Couture
The visit is fascinating and the creations for men, women are children will not leave you indifferent. Pierre Cardin is most known for Haute Couture but did you know that he was one of the first designers to create a Pret a porter line of clothing??
As Cardin once said: “Why shouldn’t my clothes be sold in normal boutiques, and worn by normal people? Why shouldn’t women who are not rich not be able to dress well?” So next time you are in Paris and you want to do something different and fashionable, go to the Pierre Cardin Museum!
The museum is located at 5, rue Saint-Merri, 75004 in the Marais.
Open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 11am - 6pm and Saturday and
Sunday from 1pm - 6pm.
