EXPIRES: 2000

WRITTEN: 1968

Dismisssing the Italian or Continental look of the 1950’s (Italy is third in Cardin sales, France first, England second), [Pierre] Cardin had three words for men’s fashions in his own lifetime: 'There were none. When I presented my line, there were only the eccentricities of youth.' And the future of men’s fashions? Cardin: 'I’m creating them now.' In the year 2,000? 'I’ll be dead.'

Joseph Barry

Cardin discusses “La Mode Masculine”

Written: 1968

Addressed to: 2000

Source: Cardin discusses “La Mode Masculine”

Author: Joseph Barry

Category: Culture & Society

Annotation

2000

In the three short decades between now and the twenty-first century, millions of ordinary, psychologically normal people will face an abrupt collision with the future. Citizens of the world's richest and most technically advanced nations will find it increasingly painful to keep up with the incessant demand for change.

Alvin Toffler

2014

Indeed, the most somber speculation I can make about A.D. 2014 is that in a society of enforced leisure, the most glorious single word in the vocabulary will have become work!

Isaac Asimov

1975

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served... Low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.

Jane Jacobs