Paco Rabanne
 Spanish fashion has always differed from other European bold use of materials and innovative ideas in design with the indispensable use of avant-garde motifs. This can be judged to see at least one of the collections of the house Balenciaga, or something from the early Paco Rabanne. Although the latter is considered the creator of the French fashion designer, its origins played a huge role. Paco Rabanne was one of the most significant figures in the fashion of the sixties, which to this day is admired, and borrowing ideas from brazenly modern couturier.

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Life

Paco Rabanne was born in 1934 in the Spanish San Sebastian - where his first fashion house for a few years before Cristobal Balenciaga opened. It was there that his mother moonlighted influence and assistance that proved decisive in the fate of his son. When his father died, the servant with his mother and grandmother moved to France, where he formed his artistic taste, and where the boy understood what he likes to come up with clothes the most. Then his name was still Rabanedo and Francisco Cuervo - sonorous pseudonym Mr. take later. Like many of his colleagues, he began his career of designer clothes at once, and came to him from the architecture, which largely influenced his face fashion, as has happened with Christian Dior and many other masters. After moving to France, the young man began to look for part time well-known fashion houses - it took Givenchy, Dior and Balenciaga, each in its own way affected the taste and vision of the future fashion designer.

 Paco Rabanne

Modeling Rabanne began with the manufacture of original jewelry, which used available plastic - supple grateful material to create and create unusual accessories. Even the first collection of clothes a slave that he presented to the public in 1966, was not made of traditional fabrics, namely new experimental materials. This was the breakthrough the young designer whose work has been warmly embraced by both peers and customers. Press trumpeting the birth of a new name in fashion and it really appeared. Francisco became Rabanedo Paco Rabanne.

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Fashion experiments

The rebellious spirit of experimentation continued to disturb the creative flair of a servant, who created the clothes and accessories, using paper, metal, leather, feathers. Futuristic ideas in the sixties were at the peak of popularity, because then the fashion created the legendary Kurrezha and Balenciaga, whose dress-trapezoid, straight hard lines and bizarre architectural forms appear not only on the catwalk and magazine covers, but also on the movie screens, which at all times was considered the epitome of success for any creative person, whether designer or composer.

 Paco Rabanne
  Paco Rabanne

Inspired by international recognition, Paco Rabanne thought about the production of perfumes, where he revolutionized. He just picked up and turned upside down notions of male and female perfumes and notes, which must be present in them. In 1969 came his first fragrance Calandre, refers to a group of flower aldehyde. The composition was working Mishel, harmoniously delicate floral chords mixed with oriental notes, giving the female perfume special charm. In 1973, the brand of Paco Rabanne launched the first men's eau de toilette Eau de toilette - light fragrance Lady  Eau de toilette - light fragrance Lady
 And again unexpected. Previously men's fragrances were tart, the deaf, the slave was not afraid to make them flower. Perfume Paco Rabanne pour Homme, created by Jean Martel, he was placed in a recognizable green bottle that only emphasizes its original composition.

Currently, Paco Rabanne fragrances have a special place among the other members of his class. 1 Million and Lady Million, Black XS for him and for her, Ultrared Man and Ultrared Woman and, of course, the famous Ultraviolet years did not go to the boutiques and perfume counters are bestsellers.

 Paco Rabanne
  Paco Rabanne

By the beginning of the new millennium, Paco Rabanne decided he wanted to work for the practical fashion, so abandoned earlier avant-garde belief, immersed in ready-to-wear. The face of the brand Paco Rabanne is not devoid of inclusions from the past, the designer gladly apply and metallic fabrics, and hard cut, and sharp shoulders, and this is not surprising. His work does not stagnate in one place, but it does not change Raban himself, continuing to build the future of fashion with the influence of the past.

His collections are often compared to Balenciaga, the vision which certainly affected the slave in more than someone else. But if Balenciaga - it's a shock, then Paco Rabane - it is chic. Clothing for bold and confident, not afraid to shine in his dresses, cast the stains gasoline, the classic silver and gold.


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