Paris pays homage to the futuristic fashion of the late Paco Rabanne
Dressing in silver chainmail hoods and plexiglass robes, tinfoil suits and gleaming white space boots, worshipers came to pay their respects. At the first Paco Rabanne show since the founder's death last month at the age of 88, loyal customers and fans who crowded the front row alongside eminent designers Jean Paul Gaultier and Nicolas Ghesquière reflected on a new collection of catwalks that abounded in dazzling silver and rustling tinsel in homage to the futuristic fashion that made Rabanne famous.
Faux fur skirts and pants made from shimmering, crumpled crystal shards in homage to Rabanne's delight in crafting clothes from unlikely materials. The delicate chainmail evening bags that were a signature and best-seller of the house for decades made several appearances.
After Rabanne retired of fashion in 1999, the house he founded was relaunched by the Spanish luxury group Puig in 2011 initially under the direction of designer Manish Arora. Since 2013, the house has been run by Julien Dossena, who has brought the name back to life by reviving shiny, sharp cocktail looks for modern party wardrobes.
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Dossena left on each seat in the living room a signed note thanking "Monsieur Rabanne" for his "utopian creative approach" and his "radical expression". Afterword to the collection he created for the occasion, Dossena closed the show with a finale of five original dresses by Paco Rabanne. vision of fashion in the 1960s. His innovations included studded aluminum chain mail dresses, paper wedding dresses, a coat made of metal triangles; a dress made of rubber bands and another made of 9 kg of gold, which was worn by French singer Françoise Hardy in 1968.
The late designer's first fashion show Spanish, titled 12 The Inportable Dresses, scandalized Paris when it was staged in 1966. The “dresses” – strips of plastic loosely connected by metal rings – do not use traditional fabrics or sewing techniques. The horrified reaction of the fashion press was stoked by Rabanne who, in 1967, declared to journalists: "Haute couture is nothing but a rotting corpse surrounded by vultures: editors, journalists, columnists and advertisers... They cannot bring themselves to to admit that fashion is dead, that's why they spend their time trying to make the corpse look alive and well."
Bruno Pavlovsky, President of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, paid tribute to Rabanne's place in the history of French fashion by stating that "Paco Rabanne was a major fashion designer who never stopped exploring traditional know-how and new techniques with audacity and eccentricity.A couturier who has innovated in fashion since his first show in Paris.”
Dressing in silver chainmail hoods and plexiglass robes, tinfoil suits and gleaming white space boots, worshipers came to pay their respects. At the first Paco Rabanne show since the founder's death last month at the age of 88, loyal customers and fans who crowded the front row alongside eminent designers Jean Paul Gaultier and Nicolas Ghesquière reflected on a new collection of catwalks that abounded in dazzling silver and rustling tinsel in homage to the futuristic fashion that made Rabanne famous.
Faux fur skirts and pants made from shimmering, crumpled crystal shards in homage to Rabanne's delight in crafting clothes from unlikely materials. The delicate chainmail evening bags that were a signature and best-seller of the house for decades made several appearances.
After Rabanne retired of fashion in 1999, the house he founded was relaunched by the Spanish luxury group Puig in 2011 initially under the direction of designer Manish Arora. Since 2013, the house has been run by Julien Dossena, who has brought the name back to life by reviving shiny, sharp cocktail looks for modern party wardrobes.
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Dossena left on each seat in the living room a signed note thanking "Monsieur Rabanne" for his "utopian creative approach" and his "radical expression". Afterword to the collection he created for the occasion, Dossena closed the show with a finale of five original dresses by Paco Rabanne. vision of fashion in the 1960s. His innovations included studded aluminum chain mail dresses, paper wedding dresses, a coat made of metal triangles; a dress made of rubber bands and another made of 9 kg of gold, which was worn by French singer Françoise Hardy in 1968.
The late designer's first fashion show Spanish, titled 12 The Inportable Dresses, scandalized Paris when it was staged in 1966. The “dresses” – strips of plastic loosely connected by metal rings – do not use traditional fabrics or sewing techniques. The horrified reaction of the fashion press was stoked by Rabanne who, in 1967, declared to journalists: "Haute couture is nothing but a rotting corpse surrounded by vultures: editors, journalists, columnists and advertisers... They cannot bring themselves to to admit that fashion is dead, that's why they spend their time trying to make the corpse look alive and well."
Bruno Pavlovsky, President of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, paid tribute to Rabanne's place in the history of French fashion by stating that "Paco Rabanne was a major fashion designer who never stopped exploring traditional know-how and new techniques with audacity and eccentricity.A couturier who has innovated in fashion since his first show in Paris.”
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