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Andre Oliver

French fashion designer

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ104587894 ↗
Source-derived summary

André Oliver (1932 – 22 April 1993) was a French fashion designer, and the long-term business partner and life partner of Pierre Cardin.

Oliver was born in Toulouse in 1932.

Oliver joined Pierre Cardin in 1951, one year after he founded his fashion house, and became "Cardin's right-hand man, friend and fellow creator".

Editorial summary

“Andre Oliver” enters the record as french fashion designer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Andre, Oliver and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1932, 1993, 1951—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1932-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Andre, Oliver and French.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Andre Oliver” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Andre, Oliver and French provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104587894. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1932, 1993 and 1951.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Andre Oliver”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Andre Oliver primary sources, Andre Oliver archive and Andre research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Andre Oliver” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.