Best associated with Space Age designs and avant-garde styles, Pierre Cardin is a popular French fashion designer with an estimated net worth of $723 million in 2012.
The man who introduced the bubble dress in 1950s, Pierre Cardin is known to prefer geometric motifs and shapes. Also he is more of an experimental type who went into unisex fashion. He has worked on Chambre Syndicale and in late 1960s and early 1970s, the uniforms her designed for Pakistan International Airlines became a major hit. He is also known for redesigning the Philippines’ national costume, the barong tagalog.
In 1991, he was assigned as the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, and in 2009, he was designated as United Nation’s Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).