Paco Rabanne

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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: 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, 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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Lauded fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies at age 88 (WOKV)

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.

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Fashion icon Paco Rabanne dies aged 88 (Independent Online)

Paco Rabanne has died at the age of 88. The renowned fashion designer - who started his career designing jewellery for Givenchy, Dior, and Balenciaga before ...

“With his passing, we are reminded once again of his enormous influence on contemporary fashion, a spirit that lives on in the house that bears his name!" Without revealing a cause of death, a statement shared on the official Instagram account of the renowned Spanish designer, said: “The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honour our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. “We are grateful to Monsieur Rabanne for establishing our avant-garde heritage and defining a future of limitless possibilities."

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Fashion designer Paco Rabanne passes away at 88 (Eyewitness News)

PARIS - Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne, known for his eccentric clothing designs and for founding one of the world's best-known fragrance brands, ...

"A major personality in fashion, his was a daring, revolutionary and provocative vision, conveyed through a unique aesthetic," said chairman Marc Puig in the statement. "Paco Rabanne made transgression magnetic. Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women to clamour for dresses made of plastic and metal?"

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Lauded rebel fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies at age 88 (WOKV)

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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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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How Paco Rabanne went from fashion spaceman to fragrance king (Independent Online)

Nicknamed 'Wacko Paco' in the 1960s for his often unwearable designs, Spain's Paco Rabanne became best-known in later years for his globally popular line of ...

"He's been called a futurist, couturier, mystic, madman, Dadaist, sculptor, architect, astrologer, perfumer, artist and prophet." After the media furore around his own line, Rabanne signed a deal in 1968 that brought him under the ownership of the Barcelona-based Puig family, heavyweights in the fashion and fragrance industry. Paris - Nicknamed "Wacko Paco" in the 1960s for his often unwearable designs, Spain's Paco Rabanne became best-known in later years for his globally popular line of fragrances as well as his eccentric beliefs.

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Paco Rabanne: From fashion spaceman to fragrance king (News24)

Nicknamed "Wacko Paco" in the 1960s for his often unwearable designs, Spain's Paco Rabanne became best-known in later years for his globally popular line of ...

"He's been called a futurist, couturier, mystic, madman, Dadaist, sculptor, architect, astrologer, perfumer, artist and prophet." "To say that Paco Rabanne marches to his own drummer is an understatement," the New York Times wrote in 2002. - "To say that Paco Rabanne marches to his own drummer is an understatement," the New York Times once said of the icon.

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Spanish fashion designer and fragrance king Paco Rabanne dead ... (Premium beauty)

Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne, known for his eccentric clothing designs and for founding one of the world's best-known fragrance brands, ...

"To say that Paco Rabanne marches to his own drummer is an understatement," the New York Times wrote in 2002. The launch of "Calandre" then marked the first success of a long series. Francisco Rabaneda-Cuervo was born in 1934 in Spain’s Basque region, near the city of San Sebastian, where his mother was a seamstress for the designer Cristobal Balenciaga and his father was an army general. Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women to clamour for dresses made of plastic and metal?" [Puig](https://www.premiumbeautynews.com/en/puig-relaunches-wikiparfum-and,21282) and Paco Rabanne began in the late 1960s with the launch of Calandre, the perfume created soon after the designer released ‘12 Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials.’ A major personality in fashion, his was a daring, revolutionary and provocative vision, conveyed through a unique aesthetic. I extend my sincere condolences to his family and to those who have known him,” stated Marc Puig, Chairman and CEO of the [Puig group](https://www.premiumbeautynews.com/en/puig-relaunches-wikiparfum-and,21282), which owned Rabanne’s label since the late 1960s.

Remembering innovative fashion designer Paco Rabanne (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.

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