Fashion designer from France, by birth a Spaniard, Paco Rabanne (born. 16.02.1934, Pasaia, Spain) made a real revolution in the industry of modern fashion. For the use of fabric instead of metal and plastic, it was called the fashion Metallurgist. On their shows the first time he invited black models and has grown to include music during a demonstration of the clothes. Personal life Paco Rabanne, say his biographers, belongs to the world.

Paco Rabanne

Personal life Paco Rabanne

The great couturiers of the modern era, who has dressed the most beautiful and famous women of France, Italy, Spain, America, not married and has no children. On the role of his wife was claimed by many celebrities. Because to be with that person — this is happiness, to be his wife — double happiness.

Photo: Brigitte Bardot and françoise Hardy dresses Paco Rabanne

“I’m always in my work tried to create a unique image of an independent, free and independent women, fully controlling their finances and their personal life,” he said about his attitude to women. Brilliant fashion designer Paco Rabanne is a mystic and futurist of fashion. His works go beyond the generally accepted framework of standards, they want to be considered infinite.

Clothing from Paco Rabanne

Will always impress carefully verified the details and how skillfully is the fabric for clothes it uses plastic and metal. Fashion designer-metallurg Paco Rabanne — man versatile-gifted, who have dedicated themselves not only to the world of extravagant fashion, he enjoys magic and astrology, art and architecture as well as painting and …creating new fragrances.

Iggy Pop is the face of the fragrance from Paco Rabanne

Paco Rabanne, who founded the eponymous Fashion House Paco Rabanne, primarily became known for his avant-garde collections of clothing made from unconventional materials, and it’s not just plastic and metal, he used paper, various kinds of rubber, plastic and other modern materials. Archival photos can be viewed on the website of the famous fashion designer.

Pages of the biography of Paco Rabanne

Fashion designer and artist, Francisco Rabaneda and Cuervo hails from the rugged Basque Country. His father was shot by Franco in Spain. After this tragedy, the mother of Francisco, which was a Spanish Communist, went to France with young children and her mother. Grandmother introduced Francisco with spiritualism, the natural world, and esoteric Christian symbolism, and the mother is a Marxist, taught him to be shrewd and always to achieve your goal.

Paco Rabanne early in his career

The famous fashion designer had the combination of those personal qualities that laid each of these women. Furthermore, the understanding of female character for him was the collective: on the one hand, it’s something unusual and bright, filled with power, all surpassing man. Therefore, clothes for women, according to Paco Rabanne should be unusual, showing wit, charm and excellence of modern women.

Mirror dress Paco Rabanne

In 1952, Francisco enrolled in the Academy of arts, where he began to study the characteristics of modern architecture. As part-time work he produced decorative items of clothing and unusual accessories, working closely with Pierre Cardin, Christian Dior, and Givenchy, applying for working metal and other advanced materials. It took a toll on his creative biography.

In the workshop of the Fashion House Paco Rabanne

At the same time, he decided to radically change my name and biography. Is Francisco Rabaneda and Cuervo Franco appeared Raban, and in 1965 and “Franco” became “Paco”. In 1966 Paco Rabanne first demonstrated his unusual collection of clothes: “12 dresses made of modern materials that are not allowed to wear”. The court surprised the audience was presented fancy costume, made of metal plates and hard wire.

Photo: Audrey Hepburn in a dress by Paco Rabanne

In modern architecture and industrial design then dominated the ultramodern materials, conventional metal and faux glass. Raban first decided to produce women’s clothes made of these materials. And that was just the beginning… His experiments have extended to more lightweight materials. In 1967, in Paris, the fashion designer opened Fashion House Paco Rabanne, offering a stylish set of disposable paper clothing.

Collections of clothes of Paco Rabanne

In 1988, saw the light an extraordinary collection of women’s costumes made of holographic fibers, laser discs and organic glass. The designer experimented with various materials for several decades, and, beginning in 1999, he left the Fashion House Paco Rabanne. This man allowed himself to develop each of their talents generously endowed his nature: he writes books, paintings and engaged in charity.

Currently Paco Rabanne understands that his earthly journey is nearing completion. He knows all about their earthly incarnations, and I am convinced that now is home to the final. About spiritual truths he told in the books, one of which came out recently — “the Thread of Ariadne. The art of reading the signs of destiny”. In it, Raban shared their knowledge about the mysteries of human nature, intuition and dreams, and also told about the symbols and signs that lead people in life.