Fashion house Paco Rabanne held its first fashion show since its founder and designer Paco Rabanne passed away at the age of 88 last month. During the fashion show, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Nicolas Ghesquière and other famous names of the fashion world sat in the front row. writes about it Guard.
The models took the runway dressed in the futuristic style Raban loved. These are aluminum foil suits made from pieces of crystal, sparkling white boots, silver caps, faux fur skirts and trousers.
Julien Dossena, who has run the house since 2013, left a note thanking “Monsieur Raban” for his “utopian creativity” and “radical expression” on every seat in the show. Dossena closed the show with a finale of five original Paco Rabanne dresses, as a final piece of the collection she created for this event.
Rabann, together with Pierre Cardin and André Courrèges, brought his vision of the space age into the fashion of the 1960s. Studded dresses made of aluminum, wedding dresses made of paper, coats made of metal triangles, dresses made of rubber bands and dresses made of 9 kg gold were among the innovations. It was worn by French singer Francoise Hardy in 1968.
Bruno Pawlowski, President of the Haute Couture Federation, said: “Paco Raban was an important fashion designer who never ceased to explore traditional know-how and new techniques with audacity and eccentricity. She’s a groundbreaking fashion designer since her first runway show in Paris.”
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