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Cardin’s name embossed myriad products from wristwatches to bedsheets, making his label among the world’s most famous. Pierre Cardin, the French designer whose Space Age style was among the iconic looks of 20th-century fashion, has died at 98, France’s Academy of Fine Arts said. A licensing maverick, Cardin’s name embossed myriad products from wristwatches to bedsheets, making his label among the world’s most famous. In the brand’s heyday in the 1970s and 80s, his products were sold at some 100,000 outlets worldwide, though that number dwindled dramatically in later decades.

<p>LACOSTE, France — The Marquis de Sade once lived here in this hotbed of Protestantism, a stunning town built of café-au-lait-colored stone, holding the heights across the Luberon River valley from the proud Catholic spires of Bonnieux. He was jailed and institutionalized after the residents of the town objected to his sexual and LACOSTE, France — The Marquis de Sade once lived here in this hotbed of Protestantism, a stunning town built of café-au-lait-colored stone, holding the heights across the Luberon River valley from the proud Catholic spires of Bonnieux. He was jailed and institutionalized after the residents of the town objected to his sexual and political views; his castle here was sacked in 1789.</p>

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