Avant Garde Fashion Designer Paco Rabanne

Working with a series of innovative materials including paper plastic and most famously metal rabanne s designs often resembled very beautiful and sometimes scanty armour from a mysterious universe.

Avant garde fashion designer paco rabanne. At once redefining traditional methods of savoir faire and embodying the brand s use of experimental fashion materials. His mother was the head seamstress for the famed spanish born couturier cristobal balenciaga. 10 of fashion s most avant garde designers.

Paco rabanne metal and plastic dress 1967. Paris fashion week is drawing to a close and we ve seen jaw dropping collections from a number of brands like givenchy dior versace and more. In the hands of spanish designer paco rabanne the space race became perfect stimulus for envisioning an avant garde future.

Assembled by hand the bag is the quintessential expression of paco rabanne. The 1969 bag bridges past and present through iconic design and artisanal technique. His first collection titled 12 unwearable dresses in contemporary materials sums up his philosophy that the only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials.

By the early 1960s after training as an architect he applied his skills towards avant garde accessory design proposing unique creations for several haute couture houses. Born as francisco rabaneda cuervo in san sebastian spain on february 18 1934 rabanne and his mother chief seamstress for fashion brand balenciaga left spain for paris soon after the spanish civil war broke out in 1936. He started his career in fashion by creating jewelry for givenchy dior and balenciaga and founded his own fashion house in 1966.

He talks to legend about friendship science fiction and turning chain mail into works of art. As creative director of paco rabanne since 2013 julien dossena has breathed new life into a once radical and avant garde brand. For the debut of his namesake brand in 1966 he presented manifesto.

At the age of five he and his mother a head seamstress at balenciaga escaped the spanish civil war by fleeing to france there he assumed the name paco rabanne. He used unconventional material such as metal paper and plastic for his metal couture and outlandish and flamboyant designs. Paco rabanne showcases its avant garde spirit for ss21 inspired by the founder s first ever collection.