Visit Pierre Cardin’s holiday home, the Bubble Palace

Pierre Cardin even went on holiday in the future, or a vision of the future that, even if it is now in the past, seems to be still there and waiting for us. “The dresses I prefer,” the designer said in 1969, “are the ones I invent for a life that does not yet exist.” Cardin, who died at 98 this week, has transformed fashion with tools and a world of licensing, but has always looked forward to it. What I would have given to be one of the guests on October 6, 2008 during the 80th birthday party he held for himself to celebrate his then 50-year career in fashion Palais Bulles (Bubble Palace) in Théoule-sur-Mer in the south of France, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The surrealistic domed building was originally built in the 1970s by Hungarian architect Antti Lovag for a French industrialist, Pierre Bernard, who died in 1991. Cardin was the second owner of this kingdom, which contained an amphitheater, three swimming pools, and ten bedrooms each. designed by another artist. But it might as well have originated from Cardin, the crazy scientist himself, because it was such a perfect reflection of his Flash Gordon aesthetics that embraced the brave new world of space travel from the 60s that Cardin grabbed for the public imagination. has. He has expanded a license empire that includes everything from sunglasses, cars, restaurants and household furniture – so that we can all participate in different ways as well.