Famed fashion designer Paco Rabanne has sadly passed away at the age of 88 – according to news reports.
Entertainment SA has gathered that the well-known and one of the most successful fashion designers is seen as a revolutionary.
Rabanne is known for his eccentric clothing designs and for founding one of the world’s best-known fragrance brands – died on Friday at the age of 88 – ESA understands.
As his passing was confirmed to a French news agency AFP by the parent company of his brand, Rabanne’s company said he had “marked generations with his radical vision of fashion and his legacy will live on”.
“Paco Rabanne made transgression magnetic. Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women to clamour for dresses made of plastic and metal?” said Jose Manuel Albesa, of Barcelona-based Puig, which owned Rabanne’s label since the 1960s.
Per the report, Rabanne was a key figure in the space-age fashion movement of the 1960s, known for using metal and other unlikely materials in his outfits.
He teamed up with Puig in 1968 and they unveiled their first fragrance together a year later, leading to a perfume line that remains one of the most globally popular today.
“A major personality in fashion, his was a daring, revolutionary, and provocative vision, conveyed through a unique aesthetic,” said chairman Marc Puig in the statement.
@Eric Seay commented:
“Rest in Peace, a great fashion icon will live forever.”
@Liam Brady said:
“Heaven Scent…”
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