![]() Information on his survivors was not immediately available. The company temporarily put the ready-to-wear line on hiatus, only to revive it in 2011 under the creative direction of Manish Arora, followed by Lydia Maurer and then by Julien Dossena, the current designer, who took over in 2014. Rabanne retired in 1999, though Puig continued to release new fragrances under his brand, most famously 1 Million, which he had helped create. In 1981, he introduced home furnishings in 1983, a ready-to-wear line for men in 1990, women’s ready-to-wear. It was followed four years later by Paco Rabanne Pour Homme, which gave rise to a veritable flood of scents, including Metal, La Nuit, Sport and XS. ![]() His father was a colonel who was executed during the Spanish Civil War, and in 1939 his mother, the head of tailoring for the designer Cristóbal Balenciaga, fled with her young son to France. 18, 1934, in Pasajes, near San Sebastián, Spain he later adopted Paco Rabanne because it was 11 letters long, which he thought was a felicitous number. Rabanne published a book entitled “Journey: From One Life to Another.” But, in fact, his own life was an epic unto itself.įrancisco Rabaneda y Cuervo was born on Feb. Salvador Dalí simply called him the second genius of Spain. The New York Times once described him as “futurist, couturier, mystic, madman, Dadaist, sculptor, architect, astrologer, perfumer, artist and prophet.” He predicted that the Russian space station Mir would fall on Paris. He believed he had seen God three times, been visited by aliens and had numerous previous lives, including one in which he was a prostitute during the reign of Louis XV and one in which he murdered Tutankhamen. Rabanne also explored some equally far-out beliefs. In ranging wide over new frontiers in fashion, Mr. They made his name resonate far beyond the salons of Avenue Montaigne and would go on to influence the work and business plans of generations of designers. Experimentation and scent were the twin pillars on which his brand was built. He costumed Jane Fonda in the 1968 sci-fi film “Barbarella,” eschewed needles and thread for pliers (he once said that “sewing is slavery”) and made chain mail into a fabric. Three years later he introduced his first perfume, called Calandre (the name means “car grill”), which became the basis of a fragrance empire. He burst onto the French fashion scene in 1966 with a collection called “Manifesto: 12 Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials” and chain-link minidresses composed of hundreds of plastic and metal disks. Rabanne’s career was a moon shot unto itself. “Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women to clamor for dresses made of plastic and metal?” “Paco Rabanne made transgression magnetic,” Jose Manuel Albesa, the president of the beauty and fashion division at Puig, said in a statement. His death was confirmed by Puig, the luxury group that owns the brand. ![]() ![]() Paco Rabanne, the Spanish designer whose futuristic creations gave shape to the dreams of the space age and redefined couture, died on Friday in Portsall, France. ![]()
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