Friendship with Gorbacheva and arrival to Chernobyl: as Pierre Karden became "the red couturier"

The cult designer Pierre Karden died today to France. Fashion designer had warm feelings to the USSR and Russian Federation, for what received the nickname "red couturier". The ballerina Maia Plisetskaya became the first and main thread connecting Pierre Karden with Soviet Union. The maestro got acquainted with it when actors arrived to a festival in Avignon in 1971. Maia Plisetskaya stepped on the stage from "Carmen suite". In some months Maia Plisetskaya appeared in the Grand opera and was going to go for reception. Pierre Karden faced the dancer in hotels where the actress stopped. Pierre Karden understood: Maia Plisetskaya did not know how to put on on the secular...