Paco Rabanne

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.

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."

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

The group that owns fashion house Paco Rabanne says the Spanish-born designer, known for perfumes and metallic, space-age fashions, has died at 88.

“My colleagues tell me I am not a couturier, but an artisan and it’s true that I’m an artisan. “The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honor our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. 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?” said the statement.

Rabanne designed the iconic costumes for Jane Fonda in Roger Vadim's 1968 cult film Barbarella, which are still on display in MoMA in New York.

[Jane Fonda](https://deadline.com/tag/jane-fonda/) in Roger Vadim’s 1968 cult film [Barbarella](https://deadline.com/tag/barbarella/), which are still on display in MoMA in New York. [Paco Rabanne](https://deadline.com/tag/paco-rabanne/), who was best known for his metallic space-age outfits, has died in [France](https://deadline.com/tag/france/) at the age of 88 years old. The self-taught designer broke into the Parisian Haute Couture scene in the early 1960s with a collection composed of 12 unwearable experimental metallic dresses.

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.

PARIS (AP) — Spanish-born fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at age 88. The company that owns the Rabanne brand on Friday announced the death of the ...

“When hair balloons, regimes fall,” Rabanne said. “The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honor our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. He said she was jailed at one point for being dressed in a “scandalous” fashion. 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?

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

Fashion announces the future.” He added that women were harbingers of what lies on the horizon. “When hair balloons, regimes fall,” Rabanne said. "The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honor our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. 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, Caroline Herrera and Dries Van Noten. 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.

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?”

Mr. Rabanne's designs included the green catsuit worn by Jane Fonda in the 1968 sci-fi cult classic "Barbarella."

He could, however, flash a sense of humor about the line between fashion as art and fashion as something practical to put on. “'She wore it one night to a Mozart concert,” he recounted. For the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards, he designed a [paper gown](https://footwearnews.com/gallery/celebrities-wearing-paco-rabanne-photos/) worn by Lady Gaga. “I am always searching for new materials, not for their shapes but for the way light plays on them and their textures. Rabanne said the flight from Spain and watching World War II unfold from France “made him an adult” long before he was a teenager. In 1959, Women’s Wear Daily published seven sketches of dresses signed “Franck Rabanne” — a name he used until adopting Paco Rabanne in 1965. His father, an officer in the anti-Franco Republican forces, was executed by Franco loyalists after he refused to switch sides in the civil war. Rabanne became known in the 1970s for colognes, handbags and ready-to-wear fashion that made him familiar to department-store consumers around the world. “So it was a moment when women emerged to be warriors because they needed to affirm their desire of emancipation, freedom and liberty,” Mr. Fashion empress Coco Chanel called him “the metallurgist of fashion” for his groundbreaking [minidresses ](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/145899)of aluminum and other materials and clunky jewelry made of rhodoid, a type of plastic. “I’ve only got one influence, and that’s my invention of new fabrics,” he told the Independent in 2003. It left him the subject of biting headlines such as “Beaming up to Planet Paco.”

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?

Paco Rabanne, the legendary Spanish-born fashion designer—best known for his perfumes line and metal mesh fashion designs—died in his home on Friday.