Hiroko Matsumoto
Hiroko Matsumoto (松本 裕子 Matsumoto Hiroko, 1936-2003) was a Japanese model.
[edit] Biography
Pierre Cardin met her in 1960 during a trip to Japan, where he fell in love with. She would follow him to Paris.[1][2] Pierre Cardin chose her as his top model. Named Miss Hiroko, she was the first ever Japanese model for a French clothing collection.[3] .[4]
Matsumoto ended her modelling career in 1967. She married Henry Berghauer, manager at groupe Pierre Cardin, and future manager of Hanae Mori, and then of fashion clothing company Hervé Léger.[5][6] She then became an actress and played the Japanese lover, Kyoto, in the 1970's movie Domicile Conjugal made by François Truffaut. She wore dresses from Hanae Mori in this movie.[7]
A few years later, Hiroko Matsumoto married Jean-Claude Cathalan, manager at Roussel Uclaf[8][9] He joined the fashion industry and became the president of Révillon, of Parfums Caron, of Jean-Louis Scherrer and today the president of Comité Montaigne[8][10] Their girl, Maxime Cathalan was kidnapped in Neuilly-sur-Seine at the age of 20 months in front of her nurse. The child was given back to its parents on 23 June 1975 for a 1.5 million Franc ransom.[11]
Hiroko Cathalan died in 2003 at the age of 67 in Paris after a long period in the hospital. Her cause of death continues to be a mystery to this day.[12]
[edit] References
- ^ Matthias Gurtler, Pierre Cardin, VSD, 19 July 2006
- ^ Jean-Noël Liaut, Cover Girls and Supermodels 1945-1965
- ^ Template:Sylvana Lorenz, Pierre Cardin, son fabuleux destin, 197 pages, isbn =978-2846121910
- ^ Template:Book Christopher Briward, David Gilbert, Fashion's World Cities, Berg Publishers; First Edition edition, 320 pages, isbn =978-1845204136
- ^ L'Officiel de la mode n 729, 1987, pages 30, 31, Jalou Gallery
- ^ Sommaire de la lettre Executives n°351, le 7 février 1997
- ^ Filmotruffaut
- ^ a b Who's Who in France
- ^ 01.12.2010 – Comité Montaigne: "La Saga des Industries du Luxe: Un atout pour la France", Club des Affaires en Rhénanie du Nord-Westphalie
- ^ L'Officiel de la mode n 800, 1995, pages 78, 79, Jalou Gallery
- ^ La Nouvelle République of 23 June 1975: Maxime Cathalan libérée par ses ravisseurs
- ^ Obituary: Hiroko Matsumoto, Japan Times, 23 June 2003
