Visionary fashion designer Pierre Cardin has died at age 98. After a career that spanned more than 70 years and began with costume design on Jean Cocteau’s 1946 Beauty And The Beast, the Italian-born, naturalized Frenchman passed away at the American Hospital outside Paris on Monday.Cardin’s family called this “a day of great sadness” and noted, “across a century, the great couturier that he was left France and the world an artistic heritage unique to fashion, but not only that.”Cardin was a savvy businessman who became the first fashion designer to mass produce haute couture while also successfully licensing his brand and owning the Maxim’s chain of restaurants along with his own fashion house.Born to French parents on July 2, 1922 near
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