Paco Rabanne (born Francisco Rabaneda there Cuervo the February 18th 1934 with Pasaia, Province of Gipuzkoa, Euskadi, Spain -) is a large dressmaker. He revolutionized the universe of the mode in the Années 1960. In the Years 1990, it was also illustrated in the media through Prédiction S and the account of its former lives.

Technique

It is famous to work of the materials which come from the fields most distant from those which are traditionally used. He is seen by certain like an agitator, because of his importable creations often qualified of what would show at his place an apparent absence of concern for vestimentary worries of the 20th century.
Its intensive use of rigid materials assembled by rings gives also “secondary” results. For example, with this kind of screen, the body of the woman is entirely revealed through the interstices and does not show only any more these zones of nudity placed according to conventions of each époque.
It pushes the provocation of discomfort until using lic dresses completely Métal the such protective aprons of the to stop S or coats of mail or dress S made of masks of slides or fiberoptics.

It substitutes for the seam riveting. Pearl S and Paillette S is applied to the fabric using tiny nails finished by a loop. With this technique the embroidery can be carried out easily on the clothing finished in relatively short time.
The family workshop of embroidery of Paco Rabanne composed by her mother and her brothers and sisters quickly obtains the regard of dressmakers like Nina Ricci, Philippe Venet or Gerard Pipart.

Biography

Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo is born in the Spanish Basque Country there. Following the setting with died of the father by the pro-Franco troops, the family leaves for France. His/her mother was first hand at Balenciaga in Espagne.Il is first cousin with Pablo Picasso.

In France he studies the Architecture without never starting really once his studies to it completed. Initially he works as a draftsman for a leather dealer, Roger Model and for a shoemaker, Charles Jourdan, manufacturing buttons and small accessories for the Haute couture. He was even briefly brodeur.
Fact, from its studies of architecture it learned how to evaluate volumes, to work in space and to follow a logic of materials.

It launches out then in the creation of jewels imagination; it then selected the way of the experimentation of materials and new uses. Its very first earrings in Rhodoïd (plastic containing acetate, transparent and fireproof).

This Rhodoïd, material of predilection for its first creations is not randomly selected: rigid plastic, light and available at very weak price is available in plates of all the colors. It is very simple to cut it in geometrical modules perforables. Assembled quite simply with metal rings they can result in earrings, even very cumbersome but always light. Thanks to the low costs at the base and the simplicity of the assembly, the accessories economic and are adapted to the desires of these young customers.

It is thus in 1965 with its accessories which it describes itself as “nutcases” that it is médiatisé. Twenty-five thousand parts are ordered the first year.

Following this first success, Paco is tested with the realization of small parts: Bolero S for example, always created starting from same the plates of Rhodoïd, assembled in a screen. These creations are adopted by the shops and the press announces the arrival of a new type of clothing.

One arrives in 1966 and it is the year when Paco Rabanne present her first collection, in Paris. They are twelve “importable contemporary material dresses”. As for all its processions thereafter, the public is divided. It is indicated by nicknames such as “Jules Verne of the seam”, “metallurgist”, “plastiquor of the mode” and in same time, its creations are in the international press.
In 1966, it carries out also its first model in Fourrure. It is about a pair of Lunette S in black astrakhan and Rhodoïd: simultaneous protection of the cold, the sun and the glances.
The Plume S of their share also appear in his work in 1966 in certain models such as for example a coat of white feathers of Autruche stuck by transparent adhesive bands.

In 1967, it presents a series of dresses in Papier. It was made more resistant thanks to a screen of Nylon, was fireproofed and soft. The idea is not completely new and in the USA one already saw paper used for domestic Tablier S for example and other objects at low cost. But Paco adds his to it. The assembly of the various parts, he chooses coloured adhesive bands which are also useful as a décoration.
In 1967, the house Simon Frères requires of him to create a collection starting from its more beautiful skins. Paco Rabanne exalte by a metal juxtaposition where one finds the pastilles of protective aprons of butchers.

Its research, its difference is not limited to the end product, but also to the manufactoring processes. It is like that in 1968, after three years of studies, sees the day clothing moulded “Giffo”. It is quite simply a question of pulverizing a plastic cloud in a mould studied for this purpose. One manufactures thus a Imperméable per minute by reducing handling necessary from approximately 500, to two (pulverization and release from the mould). However behind this simplicity hid very important costs of installation and the project stops at the stage of the prototypes.
In 1968, it present the fur Knitting ée. The manufactoring process, which is patented like the majority of its screens and assemblies, consists in knitting thin straps of furs, which makes it possible to obtain a flexible, ventilated and reversible screen on the basis of falls or of too narrow furs for a traditional use. Coat X, wraps S but also |pants S are thus made, thus presenting this lightness and in addition, a perfect calorific value.

In 1969, period during which the Dentelle almost disappeared from the collections of the large dressmakers, it treats it: cut out, moulded under two layers of plastic, articulated by rings and pastilles in Rhodoïd of color, riveted on a metal dress, it does not resemble completely any more the product of origin.

It is allowed with the employers' federation of the Seam in 1971. Insomniac, Paco Rabanne draws much the night. In 2007, it exposes its works to Valbonne with the workshop of the " Arts of the feu" , as well as vases carried out starting from its drawings by a glass-blower.

Paco Rabanne, her former lives, the Mir station and media

He affirms to have the first time made love with the Earth by digging a hole in the ground, at the time of a passage in the Leon, Breton province, judged by him like " more reactionary of France". He affirms to have had several lives (of which that of a whore of the Palais Royal, mistress of Louis XV), to have cotoyé Jesus in a former life, to have seen God three times and to have received the visit of Extraterrestre s.
Whereas François Mitterrand would have decided not to be presented for presidential the 1981, following the debate against Valery Giscard d'Estaing, he would have affirmed with the socialist chief, at the time of a dinner in the presence of Roger Hanin which he would be elected and which he was to thus represent. In 1999, a few days before the solar eclipse total of the August 11th, it predicts through the media that the space station Mir (in which Jean-Pierre Haigneré remains then) was going to be crushed in France (While entering the atmosphere certain pieces were to fall on Paris and others in the area from the Gers) and to cause thousands of deaths. Sure of him, it is committed not making a prediction more if this one is not carried out pas.
Taking the " voyant" with the word, the " Ring Zététique " organize l'" aperitif of the survivants" who brings together approximately 200 people, denouncing by this demonstration good child the inanity of such a prédiction.
In spite of the failure of this last blow of glare, and a reputation thus acquired oscillating of mythomaniac with enlightened, among the public and the media, it continues to regularly appear in a specialized press, tackling more the subject of its known as experiments Paranormal are that of the Haute couture.

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