Jean-Pascal Hesse, a historian by training and deputy mayor of Paris's eighth arrondissement, has been communications director for the group Pierre Cardin since the 1990s. He brings years of expertise to his analyses of the designer's work and inspiration. Pierre Pelegry, director of Maxim's, has reunited in this book images by Japanese photographer Yoshi Takata, who was a creative partner of Piene Cardin for overforty years.