• 2009 fashion news - Pierre Cardin hospitalised but due to return home


    06 May 2009

    Pierre Cardin hospitalised but due to return home
    Fashion news– Star French couturier Pierre Cardin, seen here in April 2009, aged 86, is to be released from a hospital …

    MARSEILLE (AFP) – Star French couturier Pierre Cardin, aged 86, is to be released from a hospital in this Mediterranean city after a 48-hour stay caused by high blood pressure, a source close to the designer said Wednesday.

    Cardin, who fell and broke a shoulder-blade last week, was flown by helicopter to Marseille on Tuesday from the southern village of Lacoste, where he each year organises a music and theatre festival in a castle he is restoring that was once owned by the Marquis de Sade.

    "He has had a thorough check-up and is being kept for observation until he leaves tomorrow," the source who declined to be named told AFP.

    Emergency services said he had suffered a malaise but the source said "his blood pressure rose ... he was totally lucid."

    Cardin last week was also briefly hospitalised for a fracture of his shoulder-blade after falling on stairs.

    (Yahoo fashion news)

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