Cardin was born near Venice to French parents off Italian descent and started his career making theatrical masks and costumes for Jean Cocteau's film Beauty and the Beast before joining the then unknown Christian Dior a year later.

卡丹出生在威尼斯附近，父母都是法國人，沒有意大利血統，他的職業生涯始於為讓-科克託的電影《美女與野獸》（Beauty and the Beast）製作戲劇面具和服裝，一年後加入當時名不見經傳的Christian Dior。

Hey was the first designer to sell collections in department stores in the late 19 fifties.

Hey是1950年代末第一個在百貨公司銷售系列的設計師。

It led to him being briefly expelled from a French guild of fashion designers, but that didn't stop him.

這導致他短暫地被法國一個時裝設計師協會開除，但這並沒有阻止他。

He later went on to be the first to enter the licensing business for perfumes, accessories and even food, now a major profit driver for many fashion houses.

後來，他又率先涉足香水、配飾甚至食品的授權業務，現在已成為許多時裝公司的主要利潤來源。

In another pioneering move, Cardin presented a collection in China in 1979 when it was still largely closed to the outside world and just two years after the Berlin Wall came down a Cardin fashion show on Moscow's Red Square attracted a crowd of 200,000 for his latest venture.

另一個開創性的舉動是，1979年，卡丹在中國推出了一個系列，當時中國還基本不對外開放，而就在柏林牆倒塌兩年後，卡丹在莫斯科紅場的一場時裝秀吸引了20萬觀眾前來觀看他的最新作品。

In February this year, he teamed up with a designer seven decades, his junior card in told Reuters.

今年2月，他與一位設計師合作了七十年，他的小卡在告訴路透社。

I've always trying to be different, to be myself.

我一直在嘗試與眾不同，做自己。

Whether people like it or not, that's not what matters.

不管大家喜不喜歡，這都不是最重要的。