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Not complaining, but I'm surprised this reached the front page. Was Pierre Cardin closer to tech somehow than other famous fashion designers?
by kolinko 6y ago
Not complaining, but I'm surprised this reached the front page. Was Pierre Cardin closer to tech somehow than other famous fashion designers?
- SftwreEngnr 6y agoAgreed.
- samizdis 6y agoLoosely speaking, he was. His work was described as futuristic and space-age, and he did create a concept spacesuit for NASA in 1970. The NYT obit [1] is nicely done, and its title is well-judged, too, Pierre Cardin, Designer to the Famous and Merchant to the Masses, Dies at 98 Cardin was a businessman almost more than he was a fashion designer; if nowadays we refer to "brands", it has much to do with him. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/style/pierre-cardin-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/style/pierre-cardin-dead....
- kolinko 6y agoThanks for this info :)
- tomhoward 6y agoAs the guidelines state, HN content doesn't have to be tech-related, it just has to gratify intellectual curiosity. Evidently, HN readers find Cardin's career and legacy interesting enough to be worth upvoting and discussing.
- corin_ 6y agoIt's possible to consider "why has HN found this interesting" without also thinking "this shouldn't be on the site!". I'm very much onboard with what you wrote, but I too saw this post and wondered what it was about him that took his death to HN's front page.
- kolinko 6y ago+1, this is exactly what I meant. Not saying it doesn’t belong but asking why it’s interesting, because I’m sure there is a reason :)
- tomhoward 6y agoNo worries! It's just your initial comment did emphasise the question of his proximity to tech, whereas obituaries for non-tech-affiliated people appear on HN all the time - e.g., John le Carré, Diego Maradona, Sean Connery, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Eddie Van Halen all very recently.
- cmoscoso 6y agoI presume software is eating the world, and Pierre Cardin lived in this part of the wirl