'Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion' exhibit launches at the Brooklyn Museum

For seven decades, French designer Pierre Cardin has been an architect of avant-garde chic, inventing everything from bubble dresses to his own fabric. Taking inspiration from space exploration and technology, he conjured gravity-defying gowns with orbiting tiers, "Computer" coats with origami-esque accordion pleats and "Cylinder" pants for men. He worked for famed couturiers Elsa Schiaparelli...