Pierre Cardin's house Documentary films about the personalities of great people are always a sensitive issue. There is a subtle, almost imperceptible line between the vanity of the author, who took such pliable and graceful material, and the portrait, albeit great for his era, but still a man, an adult child, desperately feeling and sincerely loving.
“The House of Pierre Cardin” (2019) is a lifetime biography of the maestro of the fashion world, who turned his life into a real show of synthesis of arts. An Italian boy named Pierre devoted his childhood years to sewing puppet outfits and dreams of theatrical stage, but being at the right time in the right place, began a dizzying career as a couturier.
It is difficult to determine which event of Cardin’s nearly century-long history can be called the crown of his career – his own theater as the embodiment of a childhood dream or a fashion show on a Chinese wall as a bright splash on the gray canvas of socialism. He made fashion accessible, different, and completely crazy, penetrating his intricate logo in hundreds of thousands of homes. He bought property on the Champs-Elysees and met old age in the workplace. Surrounded by faithful helpers, he was left alone, alone with his creations, because even in heaven he imagined himself with scissors and cloth in his hands.
Work on the film ended during Cardin's lifetime, becoming an animated epitaph of his multifaceted personality. He himself gave interviews and comments on many events of the distant past, not without humor and irony somewhere on the edge. The stories of his associates, colleagues and fans are interspersed with a kaleidoscope of chronicle footage of shows, trips and interviews. In addition to the living hero, who became famous at the dawn of the Beatles, this dock is valuable and the lack of staged scenes as an attempt to reanimate times long gone. And the plot is devoted exclusively to the path of the creator, without the notorious investigations of the secrets of personal life, which often creates a biased attitude towards the personality of the hero.
Only hundreds of pictures, dozens of interviews and a bright look of a little boy who dreams of beauty on the theater stage, has become a genius of fabric plastics and a teacher for thousands of admirers, just beginning the path of cutting and sewing.