Paco Rabanne

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People Magazine journalist Hedy Philips noted that these space age designs "turned the fashion world upside down".

Rabanne died at home in Portsall, Ploudalmézeau, France, on 3 February 2023, fifteen days short of his 89th birthday. In 1966, Rabanne was named one of the "fashion revolutionaries" in New York by Women's Wear Daily, alongside Edie Sedgwick, Tiger Morse, Pierre Cardin, Baby Jane Holzer, Rudi Gernreich, André Courrèges, Emanuel Ungaro, Yves Saint Laurent, and Mary Quant. Paco Rabanne, with Francoise Hardy, Salvador Dali and Amanda Lear in Paco Rabanne, In France, On May 19, 1968". Although he didn't consider himself a futurist, Rabanne's most famous contribution to the fashion industry was arguably his futurist space age designs.On 10 May 1999, he publicly vowed not to make any more predictions if Mir did not crash into Paris on 11 August 1999. In mid-2013, Belgian and former Balenciaga designer Julien Dossena was appointed creative director of womenswear at Paco Rabanne. He created a number of highly successful scents, including Paco Rabanne Pour Homme, 1 Million, and Lady Million. In 1968, Rabanne began collaborating with the fragrance [17] company Puig, which resulted in the company marketing his perfumes.

He claimed he had lived several lives (including that of a prostitute in the time of Louis XV), to have known Jesus in a previous life, to have seen God three times, to have been visited by extraterrestrials, to have murdered Tutankhamun, [34] and to be 75,000 years old. One of the black-and-white sketches depicts a child letting go of a dove and a white balloon into the sky, which he said was inspired by the commemoration ceremony for the 2004 Beslan attack in Beslan, North Ossetia, in which 319 hostages were killed, including 186 children, 12 servicemen, and 31 hostage-takers.

Rabanne's mother was a chief seamstress at Cristóbal Balenciaga's first couture house in Donostia, Basque Country, and in 1939 she moved Rabanne's family to France after he opened Balenciaga in Paris. When this particular product is first applied, mandarin, pineapple, coriander and lemon hit the nose. Finally the base of tonka bean, cedar, sandalwood and musk arises to conclude the olfactory journey. He nevertheless subsequently took a job with France's foremost developer of reinforced concrete, Auguste Perret, working there for over ten years. This blend combines the austere qualities of an aromatic with the freshness of citrus for a complex and yet not over-powering result.

Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo (18 February 1934 – 3 February 2023), more commonly known under the pseudonym of Paco Rabanne ( French: [pako ʁaban]; Spanish: [ˈpako raˈβan]), was a Spanish [1] fashion designer. Longevity in perfumes refers to the duration of time that a fragrance remains detectable on the skin or in the air after it is applied. In mid-1950s Paris, while studying architecture at l'École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Rabanne earned money making fashion sketches for Dior and Givenchy, and shoe sketches for Charles Jourdan. In 1999, he announced that, at the age of seventeen, he had visions of Parisians in flames throwing themselves into the Seine and that after studying other concordant prophecies, he came to the conclusion that the Mir space station was going to crash in France at the time of the solar eclipse of 11 August 1999, its debris causing thousands of deaths in Paris and in the Gers region.

Rabanne rose to prominence as an enfant terrible of the fashion world in the 1960s with his use of unconventional materials such as metal and plastic in his clothing, and for his incorporation of futuristic elements in his designs, gaining notoriety for his space-age style. Rabanne is known for designing the iconic green dress, [8] as well as the other costumes, [9] worn by Jane Fonda in the 1968 science-fiction film Barbarella.

The fragrance 1 Million, released in 2008, was the last scent that Rabanne played a role in developing [22] and is considered to be one of the most popular men's fragrances worldwide. It is important to note that the longevity factor alone should not be the sole determinant in choosing a perfume. Rabanne was also the recipient of several awards, including the Legion of Honour, which recognised his contributions to the arts and fashion. For Tour 1996 and the resulting Live à Bercy album, singer Mylène Farmer commissioned Rabanne to create her live-concert stage costumes.During the award ceremony, Mitterrand highlighted Rabanne's early work, particularly his first collection of "12 unwearable dresses". The court reasoned that because Puig's local distributor was smuggling perfume into Brazil, the company could not show proof of payment of import duties. His reasoning for showing the drawings then was, "I am 72 years old, and I wanted to present my drawings this year before disappearing from this planet. Only reviews that feature the label "Verified Review" have been checked to ensure that the author actually used or purchased the product.