Paco Rabanne

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Fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies aged 88 (Sky News)

Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born designer, has died at the age of 88 in Portsall, Brittany.

Reflective of the mid-1960s cultural climate, his garments used post-war industrial materials - creating a trademark chunky and bold look. Born in 1934 in the Basque Country, in the western Pyrenees, he escaped the Spanish Civil War by fleeing to France at the age of five alongside his mother, who was a head seamstress at Balenciaga. He founded his namesake brand in1966, and while it is now best-known for is aftershaves and perfumes, it was his Space Age designs in the 1960s, that first brought him to the attention of many.

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Paco Rabanne Dies at 88 (WWD)

Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at age 88. He helped pioneer the Space Age aesthetic in the 1960s, and his brand is famous for perfume.

Rabanne took the promotion a step further and participated himself in a live chat session on the site. Rabanne also accurately foreshadowed the role of the internet in retail and marketing, and was one of the first designers to launch a fragrance online in the mid-1990s. While his various Armageddon predictions fell short in hindsight, the mystic influence on his fragrance and fashion did lead to various successes. I am an Aquarius, that is why I am on the earth, in order to foresee the Third World War.” The seminal fragrance Calandre was launched in 1969, in Spain, France and the U.S., breaking ground for Puig’s international development. Who but Paco Rabanne could imagine a fragrance called Calandre – the word means ‘automobile grill,’ you know – and turn it into an icon of modern femininity?”

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Paco Rabanne, couturier visionnaire, est mort (Le Monde)

Si son nom fut synonyme de blockbusters en parfumerie ou de prédictions aussi catastrophiques que farfelues, ses choix audacieux de matériaux, ...

En voyant la collection en Rhodoïd et métal défiler dans une salle de l’Hôtel George-V sur une bande-son de Pierre Boulez, Gabrielle Chanel traite Paco Rabanne de « métallurgiste ». (…) C’est ainsi que germa dans mon esprit le projet de présenter ma propre collection de haute couture, dans l’esprit des dadaïstes, c’est-à-dire dans un geste de provocation et de révolte, dans l’espoir de secouer un peu cette inertie et de promouvoir, peut-être, une plus grande modernité », écrit-il dans Trajectoire. Cette rigueur, il la met également au service des dessins qu’il réalise, en parallèle de ses études, pour des grandes maisons de couture (Dior, Givenchy, Balenciaga…). Paco Rabanne grandit, imprégné à la fois par le pragmatisme de sa mère, socialiste engagée, et le chamanisme de sa grand-mère, par ailleurs fervente catholique. Pourtant ses choix audacieux de matériaux, sa façon de les travailler, sa vision avant-gardiste et sa liberté créative ont influencé toute une génération de couturiers. Il laisse derrière lui une empreinte singulière dans l’histoire de la mode.

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Paco Rabanne Dies Aged 88 (elle.com)

The Spanish designer, famed for his metallic Space Age dresses, has passed away.

Rabanne (born Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo in 1934) rose to success in 1966 with his metal and plastic-crafted first collection titled 'The Unwearables'. We are grateful to Monsieur Rabanne for establishing our avant-garde heritage and defining a future of limitless possibilities.' 'I am profoundly saddened by the death of Paco Rabanne,' the group’s chief executive, Marc Puig, said in a statement.

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Paco Rabanne, who brought the space age to the catwalk, dies ... (Reuters)

Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born designer best known for his metallic ensembles and space age designs of the 1960s, has died at the age of 88.

He was known for recounting past reincarnations, and in 1999, he predicted the space station Mir would crash into France, coinciding with a solar eclipse. Born in a village in the Spanish Basque region in 1934, his mother was a head seamstress at Balenciaga. "Paco Rabanne made transgression magnetic. He studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. "We are grateful to Monsieur Rabanne for establishing our avant-garde heritage and defining a future of limitless possibilities,” the fashion house said in a statement. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

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Paco Rabanne, le «métallurgiste de la mode», meurt à l'âge de 88 ans (Le Devoir)

Le couturier espagnol Paco Rabanne, célèbre pour ses robes en métal, est décédé vendredi à l'âge de 88 ans en France, en Bretagne, a annoncé à l'AFP le ...

Son père, le général Rabaneda Postigo, qui commandait la garnison de Guernica, fut fusillé par les soldats de Franco en 1936. Qui d’autre que Paco Rabanne pourrait imaginer un parfum appelé Calandre — le mot signifie “grille d’automobile” — et en faire une icône de la féminité moderne ? « Paco Rabanne était un grand couturier qui n’a cessé d’explorer le savoir-faire et les techniques traditionnelles avec audace et excentricité. « Qui d’autre pourrait inciter les Parisiennes suivant la mode à réclamer des robes en plastique et en métal ? Il restera une importante source d’inspiration pour les équipes de mode et de parfum de Puig, qui travaillent ensemble en permanence pour exprimer les codes radicalement modernes de M. « Personnalité majeure de la mode, sa vision était audacieuse, révolutionnaire et provocatrice, véhiculée par une esthétique unique.

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Le couturier Paco Rabanne s'éteint à 88 ans (Le Journal de Montréal)

Le couturier espagnol Paco Rabanne est mort à l'âge de 88 ans en France.

Son père, le général Rabaneda Postigo, qui commandait la garnison de Guernica, fut fusillé par les soldats de Franco en 1936. «Paco Rabanne était un grand couturier qui n’a cessé d’explorer le savoir-faire et les techniques traditionnelles avec audace et excentricité. «Qui d’autre pourrait inciter les Parisiennes suivant la mode à réclamer des robes en plastique et en métal ?

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Le couturier Paco Rabanne s'éteint à l'âge de 88 ans (Noovo Info)

Le Télégramme rapporte que le franco-espagnol s'est éteint vendredi. La cause du décès n'est pas connu. Publicité, continuer plus bas. Plus ...

Je travaille avec mes mains», a-t-il déclaré lors d'une interview dans les années 1970. Parmi les figures de mode les plus marquantes du XXe siècle, son héritage restera», a déclaré Puig dans un communiqué. Il a étudié l'architecture à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris avant de passer à la couture - dans les pas de sa mère, qui était couturière en Espagne.

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Space-age fashion legend Paco Rabanne has died (Dazed)

The revolutionary designer, synonymous with the optimism of the 60s, passed away at 88 years of age.

Though Cuervo treated fashion as a reaction against the polemics of his day – dressing women in armour needs no explanation – he was a futurist, untethered to the everyday. His brand – synonymous with the optimism of the 60s – was built on sculptural microminis, crafted from bolshy paillettes of aluminium, which mined medieval armour for its space-age potential. The announcement was broadcast on Instagram this afternoon with a statement from the house, reading: “Paco Rabanne wishes to honour our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88.

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Paco Rabanne, Spanish fashion designer known for his Space Age ... (CNN)

World-famous fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at the age of 88. His death was announced Friday in a statement shared on the Paco Rabanne Instagram ...

He was known for his metallic ensembles —notably his chain-mail minidresses — and Space Age aesthetic. His debut couture collection, "12 Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials," set the tone for years of boundary-pushing design, favoring unconventional materials and production methods. "Among the most seminal fashion figures of the 20th century, his legacy will remain a constant source of inspiration."

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Le couturier Paco Rabanne s'éteint à 88 ans (TVA Nouvelles)

Le couturier espagnol Paco Rabanne est mort à l'âge de 88 ans en France.

Son père, le général Rabaneda Postigo, qui commandait la garnison de Guernica, fut fusillé par les soldats de Franco en 1936. «Paco Rabanne était un grand couturier qui n'a cessé d'explorer le savoir-faire et les techniques traditionnelles avec audace et excentricité. «Qui d'autre pourrait inciter les Parisiennes suivant la mode à réclamer des robes en plastique et en métal ?

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Le grand couturier espagnol Paco Rabanne est mort à 88 ans (ICI.Radio-Canada.ca)

Jose Manuel Albesa, président de la division beauté et mode de Puig, a pour sa part rendu hommage à l' esprit radical et rebelle du créateur.

Son père, le général Rabaneda Postigo, qui commandait la garnison de Guernica, a été fusillé par les soldats de Franco en 1936. Qui d'autre pourrait inciter les Parisiennes suivant la mode à réclamer des robes en plastique et en métal? Avec une profonde tristesse, Puig annonce le décès de Paco Rabanne, indique un communiqué.

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Lauded fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies at age 88 (CTV News)

Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born designer known for perfumes sold worldwide and his metallic, space-age fashions, has died, the group that owns his fashion ...

Shania Twain's sixth studio album is her first since having open-throat surgery in 2018 to strengthen her vocal muscles after a long battle with Lyme disease. [Health](https://www.ctvnews.ca/health) [Would you pay $300 a year for quick access to a nurse? CTV News' Genevieve Beauchemin recalls her visit to makeshift refugee camps set up in Pakistani parks, and the stories she heard during that time. Secretary Blinken postpones China trip following balloon discovery](https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/u-s-secretary-blinken-postpones-china-trip-following-balloon-discovery-1.6258792) The federal Liberals are withdrawing an amendment to their guns bill that introduced a controversial new definition of an assault-style weapon. "I think fashion is prophetic. "My colleagues tell me I am not a couturier but an artisan, and it's true that I'm an artisan. He titled the first collection presented under his own name "12 unwearable dresses in contemporary materials." He said she was jailed at one point for being dressed in a "scandalous" fashion. 27-March 3 fashion week. He was known as a rebel designer in a career that blossomed with his collaboration with the family-owned Puig, a Spanish company that now also owns other design houses, including Nina Ricci, Jean Paul Gaultier, Caroline Herrera and Dries Van Noten. "The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honor our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88.

Fashion designer Paco Rabanne dead at 88 (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)

Spanish-born designer Paco Rabanne has died at the age of 88 in Portsall, Britanny.

“Paco Rabanne made transgression magnetic. Article content

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Paco Rabanne, famed Spanish fashion designer, dead at 88 (INSIDER)

He rose to fame in the 1960s, becoming known for his fragrances and metallic couture. The designer's work is still popular today among stars like Sabrina ...

[Paco Rabanne 1 Million](https://www.sephora.com/product/P269120?skuId=1200773), is shaped like a gold bar and is [arguably one of the most popular men's fragrances](https://www.scentsational.com/blog/the-timeline-of-paco-rabanne/) in the world. [shown in museums around the world](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/145899), and celebrities have donned updated [versions of his earliest designs on red carpets](https://www.insider.com/sophie-turner-priyanka-chopra-danielle-jonas-brothers-premiere-2019-6). [a glittering, two-piece set](https://www.insider.com/met-gala-red-carpet-outfits-2022-5) that showed the modern-day Rabanne at the Met Gala. [both men's and women's perfumes](https://www.scentsational.com/blog/the-timeline-of-paco-rabanne/). [His official Twitter account](https://twitter.com/PacoRabanne/status/1621514365613801472) confirmed the fashion icon's death on Friday, writing: "The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honour our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88." [According to Vogue](https://www.vogue.com/article/trends-paco-rabanne-fall-2017-ready-to-wear), Rabanne's mother moved with her son to France as refugees, leading Rabanne to start studying architecture at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts.

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Fashion Designer Paco Rabanne Dies Aged 88 (Bloomberg)

The Spanish designer, whose real name was Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo, founded the renowned fashion house named after him. Alongside fellow French designers ...

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Lauded fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies at age 88 (St. Albert Gazette)

PARIS (AP) — Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born designer known for perfumes sold worldwide and his metallic, space-age fashions, has died, the group that owns ...

“When hair balloons, regimes fall,” Rabanne said. He said she was jailed at one point for being dressed in a “scandalous” fashion. "The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honor our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. He was known as a rebel designer in a career that blossomed with his collaboration with the family-owned Puig, a Spanish company that now also owns other design houses, including Nina Ricci, Jean Paul Gaultier, Caroline Herrera and Dries Van Noten. “My colleagues tell me I am not a couturier but an artisan, and it's true that I'm an artisan. Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women (to) clamor for dresses made of plastic and metal?

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Paco Rabanne: Celebrated designer dies aged 88 (BBC News)

Paco Rabanne, best known for his perfumes and fashion designs, dies at his home in France.

"I have always had the impression of being a time accelerator," he said of his designs in 2016. In 1999, after decades as one of the industry's foremost innovators, Rabanne retired from fashion. And in 1999, he courted controversy after predicting in his book - Fire From Heaven - that Paris would be destroyed later that year when the Russian space station Mir crashed down to Earth. In 1968, he signed a deal with the Catalonia-based Puig family, who were heavyweights in the fashion and fragrance industry. But he was also known for his provocative outbursts. Rabanne was born into a military family in Spain's Basque region, near the city of San Sebastian.

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Paco Rabanne, celebrated fashion designer and perfumer, dead at ... (CBC.ca)

Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born pace-setting designer known for perfumes sold worldwide and his metallic, space-age fashions, has died, the group that owns ...

In the first collection under his name, he introduced "12 unwearable dressed in contemporary materials." "The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honour our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. His first fashion house opened in the mid-1960s. "When hair balloons, regimes fall," Rabanne said. "I think fashion is prophetic. Who but Paco Rabanne could imagine a fragrance called Calandre — the word means 'automobile grill,' you know — and turn it into an icon of modern femininity?"

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Le couturier Paco Rabanne s'éteint à 88 ans (Le Journal de Québec)

Le couturier espagnol Paco Rabanne est mort à l'âge de 88 ans en France.

Son père, le général Rabaneda Postigo, qui commandait la garnison de Guernica, fut fusillé par les soldats de Franco en 1936. «Paco Rabanne était un grand couturier qui n’a cessé d’explorer le savoir-faire et les techniques traditionnelles avec audace et excentricité. «Qui d’autre pourrait inciter les Parisiennes suivant la mode à réclamer des robes en plastique et en métal ?

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Paco Rabanne, Designer of Space-Age Fashion, Has Died At 88 (Vogue.com)

Paco Rabanne, the designer who shocked the world with his futuristic vision of fashion in the 1960s has died. He was 88 years old.

The history of Puig and Paco Rabanne began in the late 1960s with the launch of Calandre,” Puig Chairman and CEO Marc Puig said in a statement. Rabanne came of age as a couturier during the 1960s, creating futuristic clothing of hammered metal, paper, and pliable plastics. [Paco Rabanne](https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/designer/paco-rabanne), the decade-spanning virtuoso of industrial couture has died.

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Mort de Paco Rabanne : station Mir, vies antérieures... Les ... (RTL.fr)

Destruction de Paris, réincarnation et apparition divine. Le créateur de génie et le prophète ésotérique Paco Rabanne est décédé ce vendredi 3 février.

Si la plupart de ces propos prophétiques ne se sont pour l'heure pas réalisés, nulle ne pourrait remettre en question le génie créateur du visionnaire. En 1999, il a déclaré sur le plateau de de Thierry Ardisson que Paris allait être détruite le 11 août de la même année suite à la chute de la station spatiale soviétique Mir durant une éclipse. Il s'était confié à sa grand-mère, une magicienne selon lui, sur ses voyages astraux entamés dès l'âge de sept ans.

Le créateur Paco Rabanne meurt à l'âge de 88 ans - L'Écho de la ... (L'Écho de La Tuque)

PARIS — Paco Rabanne, le créateur connu pour ses parfums vendus dans le monde entier et ses vêtements métalliques de l'ère spatiale, est décédé, ...

Dans la première collection à son nom, il présente «12 robes importables en matériaux contemporains». Qui d’autre pourrait inciter les Parisiennes à la mode (à) réclamer des robes en plastique et en métal ? Il a raconté un jour que sa mère avait déjà été emprisonnée pour s’être habillée de façon «scandaleuse».

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Paco Rabanne, Couturier of the Space Age, Dies at 88 (The New York Times)

He burst onto the French fashion scene in 1966 and, with dresses made from metal, plastic and paper, changed the definition of couture.

“I know that I will always have a place in the history of fashion,” Mr. “I am in all of the dictionaries because I introduced new materials to the world of fashion. Through Darkness to Enlightenment” (1994) and “The Dawn of the Golden Age: A Spiritual Design for Living” (1999), Mr. [The Times](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/05/03/107189386.html?pageNumber=33) credited him with establishing “a new kind of awesome chic.” He later included Velcro, aluminum and fiberglass in his work. 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. 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. As he told The Times, “Man hasn’t changed his uniform for 100 years.” But, he said, “Women have been freed.” 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. 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. Three years later he introduced his first perfume, called Calandre (the name means “car grill”), which became the basis of a fragrance empire. 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. “Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women to clamor for dresses made of plastic and metal?”

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Celebrated fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies at 88 (Globalnews.ca)

Paco Rabanne was known for his perfumes and his metallic, space-age fashions.

“The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honor our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. “When hair balloons, regimes fall,” Rabanne said. He said she was jailed at one point for being dressed in a “scandalous” fashion. “My colleagues tell me I am not a couturier but an artisan, and it’s true that I’m an artisan. Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women (to) clamour for dresses made of plastic and metal? The company also owns the fragrance brands Byredo and Penhaligon’s.

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Paco Rabanne: 10 Vintage Photos of the Late Fashion Designer's ... (Architectural Digest)

The Spanish designer Paco Rabanne, known for his metallic dresses, has died at the age of 88—see pictures of his life.

These festive, brilliant and unique [fashion](https://www.admagazine.fr/adinspiration/article/beaux-decors-fashion-week-2023)s were made in the image of the designer. The great Spanish fashion designer and perfumer died on February 3, 2023 in Portsall, [Brittany](https://www.admagazine.fr/adadresses/article/un-hotel-avec-vue-sur-la-mer-en-bretagne), France at the age of 88. [disco-era](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/disco-ball-decor-trend) sequined dresses and his iconic 1969 metallic bag stand out, as the designer worked in materials no longer as popular today.

Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne is dead at age 88 (Valley Public Radio)

Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at 88 years old, according to his fashion house. He was known for his fragrances and space-age designs.

In a statement, the president of his fashion and fragrance house honored Rabanne's unique aesthetic and, quote, "daring, revolutionary and provocative vision of the world of fashion." His father had been a soldier in the Republic, his mother a couture seamstress for designer Cristobal Balenciaga. The self-taught designer was born Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo in the Basque region of Spain in 1934.

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Lauded rebel fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies at age 88 (St. Albert Gazette)

PARIS (AP) — Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born designer known for perfumes sold worldwide but who made his name with metallic space-age fashions that put a ...

"The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honor our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. Artists, musicians, film-makers and hip-hop dancers frequented the center for several years, the statement from Macron's office noted. "My colleagues tell me I am not a couturier but an artisan, and it's true that I'm an artisan. He said she was jailed at one point for being dressed in a “scandalous” fashion. Rabanne was known as a rebel designer in a career that blossomed with his collaboration with the family-owned Puig, a Spanish company that now also owns other design houses, including Nina Ricci, Jean Paul Gaultier, Carolina Herrera and Dries Van Noten. Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women (to) clamor for dresses made of plastic and metal?

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Lauded fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies at age 88 (Alberta Prime Times)

PARIS (AP) — Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born pace-setting designer known for perfumes sold worldwide and his metallic, space-age fashions, has died, ...

"The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honor our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. Artists, musicians, film-makers and hip-hop dancers frequented the center for several years, the statement from Macron's office noted. "My colleagues tell me I am not a couturier but an artisan, and it's true that I'm an artisan. He said she was jailed at one point for being dressed in a “scandalous” fashion. Rabanne was known as a rebel designer in a career that blossomed with his collaboration with the family-owned Puig, a Spanish company that now also owns other design houses, including Nina Ricci, Jean Paul Gaultier, Carolina Herrera and Dries Van Noten. Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women (to) clamor for dresses made of plastic and metal?

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Le couturier espagnol Paco Rabanne est mort à l'âge de 88 ans en ... (Le Droit)

«Avec une profonde tristesse, Puig annonce le décès de Paco Rabanne», a annoncé dans un communiqué le groupe catalan qui possède la marque portant son nom, ...

Son père, le général Rabaneda Postigo, qui commandait la garnison de Guernica, fut fusillé par les soldats de Franco en 1936. «Paco Rabanne était un grand couturier qui n’a cessé d’explorer le savoir-faire et les techniques traditionnelles avec audace et excentricité. Qui d’autre que Paco Rabanne pourrait imaginer un parfum appelé Calandre - le mot signifie “grille d’automobile” - et en faire une icône de la féminité moderne ?», a-t-il ajouté.

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Le grand couturier Paco Rabanne s'éteint à 88 ans (ICI.Radio-Canada.ca)

L'heure du monde | Paco Rabanne, grand designer espagnol, est décédé à l'âge de 88 ans. Architecte de formation, il est devenu un couturier visionnaire qui ...

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