Breaking: French-Italian fashion designer Pierre Cardin dies at 98

Fashion designer Pierre Cardin has died aged 98, his family revealed.

Pierre Cardin is an Italian-born naturalised-French fashion designer. He is known for his avant-garde style and his Space Age designs.

Cardin was born in Italy in 1922 but emigrated to France as a small child, he died in a hospital in Neuilly in the west of Paris, his family said.