Paco Rabanne
Paco Rabanne, origin. Francisco Rabaneda - Cuervo ( born February 18, 1934 in San Sebastián ) is a Spanish- French fashion designer ( couturier ) and designers.
Life
Rabanne spent his childhood in the Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War. According to various biographies he should have had a " supernatural vision " at the age of seven years, which is said to have predicted his future in the world. Paco Rabanne's mother was " first seamstress " ( " Première Main" ) at Balenciaga, a renowned Spanish clothing store, which should give you a basic impulse for the career choice of the boy. In 1939, she fled with her son to Paris. The childhood of enthusiastic from Futurism, Constructivism and science fiction Rabanne studied architecture in 1952 at first and worked the late 1950s until the early 1960s, among others as a fashion illustrator for Cardin, Givenchy and Courrèges where he designed handbags, belts, jewelry and first own collections. In 1965 he opened his studio in the Rue de Caire in Paris. In 1966, his first haute couture collection, who then managed to Prêt -à -Porter runway. His international breakthrough came in 1968 with the costume design for the movie Barbarella, where he among other things, the skin-tight catsuit for Jane Fonda designed.
Rabanne has retired as a fashion designer now almost entirely of his company and is mainly engaged in esotericism. He admits to have received the age of seven a vision of the future. Among other things, he announced to the crash of the Soviet space station Mir in Paris in 1999, the " salvation of the righteous " and predicted a featured harmony coming Aquarian Age.
Responsible for the Parisian label " paco rabanne " since 2005 is the American Patrick Robinson.
Work
Paco Rabanne applies not only Courrèges and Yves Saint Laurent as a style icon for the fashion of the 60s. He developed in that time, his innovative ideas that blew all conventions. Always industrial issues (eg from space ) inspired, he astounded at that time with extravagant and sensational models. Rabanne always used unusual materials in his collections. He is considered the "Plumbers " of the fashion industry, because he liked resorted to metal parts, plastic and glass fibers, which were joined together with wire, pliers and soldering irons ( " molded dresses" ). Famous are his " chainmail ", made up of countless rings, washers and metal objects. Mostly he also used cardboard and paper for his costumes.
Mid- 1970 the designers tended to reproduce his own work again and to satirize; new ideas remained, and it lost its significance in the fashion business. A continuous " fashion wave revival " eg 1960 could mean a revival of his fashion but always.
At present, the brand " paco rabanne " predominantly with perfume collections such as its fragrance Black XS or the men's fragrance 1 million and " Invictus " in business.