How Pierre Cardin’s fashions and business sense created pop culture ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editorjones@dallasvoice.com The culture has reached a saturation point where documentaries about the fashion industry qualify as a stand-alone genre, from mavens Anna Wintour, Andre Leon Talley and Diana Vreeland to photographers like Bill Cunningham and Annie Liebovitz and of course designers: Halston, Valentino, Dior, McQueen, YSL and now Pierre Cardin.
That can feel like clutter (Chanel always said to remove one piece before going out for the evening), or it can feel like giving creatives their due.
I tend to fall in the latter camp. There’s a reason we never had many documentaries about fashion in the past — because fashion wasn’t treated