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Fashion designer Paco Rabanne dead at 88

Fashion designer Paco Rabanne dead at 88

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Spanish designer Paco Rabanne attends a press conference in Madrid, Spain, 26 May 2004 (reissued 03 February 2023). Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne has passed away at the age of 88, announced Puig, the parent company of his brands, on February 3, 2023. EPA-EFE/MONSERRAT T. DIEZ
Spanish designer Paco Rabanne attends a press conference in Madrid, Spain, 26 May 2004 (reissued 03 February 2023). Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne has passed away at the age of 88, announced Puig, the parent company of his brands, on February 3, 2023. EPA-EFE/MONSERRAT T. DIEZ

Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne, 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.

Rabanne's death was confirmed to AFP by the parent company of his brand, who 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.

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.

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He teamed up with Puig in 1968 and they released 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.


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