Pierre Cardin
The name is licensed to other makers for some or all of what carries it.
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Ownership
- 1950 Founded
- Now Trouser/menswear licence (ex-Ahlers) run by New P.C. GmbH under the Röther Group holding since 2023; trademark owned by the Cardin family's Paris company Ultimate parent: Röther Gruppe (Modepark Röther; licensee) Licensee
- 2026 Checked
- Kind of name
- Licensed nameThe company that owns the trademark doesn’t necessarily make the product. Quality follows the licensee, not the name.
- Market tier
- Mass market
- Label tells
- German-licensed trousers/jeans carry the Ahlers-era 'Pierre Cardin' trouser label; other Pierre Cardin goods come from unrelated licensees
- Seen at off-price
- Often
- Also appears as
- Pierre Cardin trousers · New P.C. GmbH
Notes
Ahlers AG (Herford) was insolvent 2023; Röther Group bought the core brands and set up New P.C. GmbH, New Baldessarini GmbH, New Pioneer GmbH and Otto Kern GmbH. UK presence of the licensed trousers is wholesale/off-price only. Founding year refers to the Paris house, not opened.