“I was always inspirered by the cosmos, circles and eternity. Circles have no corners, they go on forever,”  said Cardin, who at almost 88 is also always on the go. When I met him the other day in his Marigny office, which he refers to as his laboratoire for the past 60 years, he’d just been in Moscow to receive a prize for his Palais de lumière – a 280 m glass sculpture situated in Boulogne-Billancourt  – the original sketch was still laying on his cluttered desk. In July he opens the 10^th edition of his cultural festival in Lacoste  where he restored Marquis de Sade’s chateau and bought forty houses. That the futuristic Cardin style is forever a classic is evident in Jean-Pascal Hesse’s new book, Pierre Cardin – 60 ans de création, published by Flammarion.  www.pierrecardin.com