Avant Garde Fashion Designers Paco Rabanne

He used unconventional material such as metal paper and plastic for his metal couture and outlandish and flamboyant designs.

Avant garde fashion designers paco rabanne. In the hands of spanish designer paco rabanne the space race became perfect stimulus for envisioning an avant garde future. For the debut of his namesake brand in 1966 he presented manifesto. 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.

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Assembled by hand the bag is the quintessential expression of paco rabanne. 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. Paco rabanne started his career as a jewelry designer for fashion houses givenchy dior and balenciaga before launching his own label in 1966.

At once redefining traditional methods of savoir faire and embodying the brand s use of experimental fashion materials. The 1969 bag bridges past and present through iconic design and artisanal technique. As creative director of paco rabanne since 2013 julien dossena has breathed new life into a once radical and avant garde brand.

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. Paco rabanne metal and plastic dress 1967. Paco rabanne showcases its avant garde spirit for ss21 inspired by the founder s first ever collection.

This sculptural micromini dress constructed of square and rectangular aluminum plates joined with metal rings is a rare surviving example from his unwearable collection. 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. Paco rabanne presented his first collection twelve experimental dresses in 1964 and followed it in 1966 with a couture collection he called twelve unwearable dresses.