Pierre Cardin (1922–2020) was a prolific avant-garde fashion designer who reshaped the global fashion industry. Best known for his geometric, space-age couture and pioneering approach to business, Cardin’s work extended far beyond the catwalks, to both reflect and transcend the culture of his time.

House of Cardin is an effervescent documentary that chronicles ‘a label, a logo, and a legend’. It traces Cardin's extraordinary life from his birth in 1922 in Italy, to his move to France during the war where he studied to be a tailor, and to his time making costumes for Jean Cocteau's films and working at Dior before founding his own house in 1950. Collaging archival photos and clips from the past seven decades with extensive interview footage, the film explores Cardin’s strategic pivot from artful couture to ready-to-wear fashion, making his clothes accessible to the masses. This approach revolutionised the design of not just clothing, but also eyewear, furniture, fragrance, automobiles, and corporate branding. Cardin was the first designer to work on a truly global scale, entering previously closed-off markets in China and Russia, at the same time transforming fashions in Japan, South Africa, and Latin America. Made at the sunset of his career, House of Cardin is an affectionate and insightful film that positions Cardin as a boundary-breaking designer whose visionary work was defined, most of all, by its constant evolution.

John-Paul Pietrus made the short film Beijing Love as an ode to Song Huai-Kuei (1937–2006), widely known during her lifetime as Madame Song. Song was a legend in the spheres of Chinese art, film, music, and fashion during the 1980s and 1990s. Throughout her life, she remade herself again and again, assuming a variety of identities as an artist, designer, model, actress, entrepreneur, fashion icon, and creative pioneer.

Beijing Love depicts Song, played by supermodel Ling Tan, walking the streets of modern Beijing in extravagant evening gowns by Pierre Cardin, some of which Song had worn. The evocative atmosphere takes us back to the 1980s when Song was a fashion icon and muse.