Paco Rabanne (born Francisco Rabaneda y Cuervo) is a French fashion designer of Basque origin, founder of his own high fashion house Paco Rabanne, a revolutionary in the world of fashion in the 1960s.
Born February 18, 1934 in Pasajes, Spain.
Died: February 3, 2023 (aged 88), Pludalmeso, France.
Did you know that the genius couturier Paco Rabanne started out designing costume jewelry – his inexpensive but original plastic jewelry sold out instantly? Initially, Paco Rabanne began to study architecture, but in the process he realized that he was interested in something completely different. Perhaps it is from here, from architecture, that the couturier’s love for geometry, which is especially noticeable in his jewelry, comes.
The future maestro was attracted by the world of fashion, the world of fairy tales of his childhood, where dreams come true, and magic can briefly materialize in the real world. His mother supported her son, and it was thanks to her that he got into the Balenciaga fashion house, for which he created many amazing jewelry pieces. Then the young Paco Rabanne began collaborating with the Dior and Givenchy fashion houses. And if his grandmother’s magical tales pushed him to choose his path, then his mother’s practicality determined the entire creative path of the maestro.
From the very beginning, Paco Rabanne gave preference to materials that no one would have thought of using before him to create clothes and accessories. The jewelry that Paco Rabanne designed for reputable fashion houses was made of plastic, and completely captivated people with its simplicity and unusualness. In the press, the designer was even awarded the epithet “fashion terrorist”. And, by the way, it was Rabanne, and not Gaultier, who was first dubbed “the unbearable child of French fashion”.
Paco Rabanne considered a woman a jewel, for whom he created precious frames: so jewelry-like are the clothing models that he created throughout his career. Well, and, of course, his jewelry.
