Fashion designer Pierre Cardin was born in 1922 in Sant’Andrea di Barbarana, in the province of Treviso, under the name Pietro Costante Cardin. Although he grew up and worked in France, where he relocated with his family when he was two years old, he also owned a building in Venice's Santa Croce neighborhood called Palazzo Bragadin. The residence has been transformed into a museum, which recounts the narrative of the genius who established his fashion house in 1950. In the beginning, he focused on creating costumes and masks for the theater. He only transitioned to haute couture three years later, in 1953, after gaining experience as a tailor at Elsa Schiaparelli's atelier and then at Christian Dior's. The museum, which will be accessible to the public on September 12, will feature over 350 works (historical and modern masterpieces, original drawings, haute couture pieces, furniture, lamps, and design objects) distributed across roughly 1,000 square meters. Among the works on display will be the "Utilitarian Sculptures" of the 1970s, which are furnishing and design objects in which Cardin applied his futurist and geometric language to quotidian elements such as furniture, lamps, chairs, and accessories, giving them the appearance of genuine sculptures.