Pierre Cardin Handbag

PIERRE CARDIN - Leather
Two (2) tone charcoal-grey vintage handbag

• Vintage full leather Pierre Cardin classic
• 100% Italian cowhide leather
• Inner velvet lining with Pierre Cardin logo display
• Charcoal/Grey, two-tone snake skin pattern hardware
• Stylish entwined silver tone cable handle
• Main compartment (large) secured with magnet closure
• 1 x inner open pocket
• Discounted vintage classic brand in excellent condition

Height: 17 cm
Width: 30 cm
Depth: 5 cm
Cable handle drop 11 cm

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About Pierre Cardin (France, b. 1922)
Best known for creating groundbreaking fashion designs from the 1950s onward, Pierre Cardin was born in a village near Venice, Italy, and raised in central France. Always interested in fashion, he left home at age 17 to train with a Vichy tailor. After the end of World War II, Cardin moved to Paris and worked for a succession of couture houses, before taking a job with Christian Dior in 1946. Cardin went solo in 1950, and quickly won attention for his novel style. Unlike Dior’s famous New Look, Cardin’s clothes de-emphasized a woman’s curves; his breakthrough pieces like the Bubble dress had, instead, a sculptural quality. In the following decade, Cardin introduced bright tunic dresses and shifts, marketed as the Space Age look and accessorized with vinyl hats and visors.

In the 1970s Cardin expanded his design work into furniture, jewellery and automobiles. (Later, licensing agreements would put Cardin’s name on goods ranging from perfume to sunglasses.) Cardin’s furniture pieces, inspired, perhaps, by the rediscovery of Art Deco design in that decade, feature simple, symmetrical forms, lacquer and figured veneer finishes, and accents in metals such as aluminium and brass.