Paco Rabanne Metal Dress 1960s

At the age of five he and his mother a head seamstress at balenciaga escaped the spanish civil war by fleeing to france where he assumed the name paco rabanne by the early 1960s after training as an architect he applied his skills towards avant garde accessory design.

Paco rabanne metal dress 1960s. Mr paco rabanne was born francisco rabaneda y cuervo in 1934 in spanish basque country. 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. Paco rabanne with a model in one of his link dresses 1966 photo. This sculptural micromini dress constructed of square and rectangular aluminum plates joined with metal rings is a rare surviving example from his unwearable collection.

Paco rabanne metal and plastic dress 1967. His designs overturned and redefined the fashion system of the mid 1960s. Paco rabanne will always be remembered for his experimentation with and application of unconventional industrial materials like plastic neon and metal towards fashion. He started his career in fashion by creating jewelry for givenchy dior and balenciaga and founded his own fashion house in 1966.

In 1966 paco rabanne opened his own outlet at the age of 32 where he earned international repute for his metal linked plastic disc dresses sun goggles and jewellery made of plastic in primary colours. The 1969 bag bridges past and present through iconic design and artisanal technique. He used unconventional material such as metal paper and plastic for his metal couture and outlandish and flamboyant designs. For the debut of his namesake brand in 1966 he presented manifesto.

Formally trained as an architect rabanne got his first taste for fashion while he was in school drawing fashion sketches for dior and givenchy as. Paco rabanne metal dresses and 1969 fashion. These included his first plastic dress. A man who made waves or should we say links that is between fashion and architecture during the 1960s.

In 2017 for example we re seeing the return of paco rabanne s signature metallic chain metal dresses which first walked the runways in the 1960s and were in again in the early aughts during. Rabanne s dresses revealed more than they concealed but critics reacted less to his exposure of the female form than to. Assembled by hand as a seamless surface of metal pastilles the bag is the quintessential expression of paco rabanne avant garde when created fifty years ago and timeless. Paco rabanne the creator.

The franco spanish designer originally worked for chris. Paco rabanne s dresses made of small plastic tiles linked together by chains stole the show in paris.