Paco Rabanne passed away this Friday, February 3, 2022, in Portsall, Brittany.
Paco Rabanne passed away this Friday, February 3, 2022, in Portsall, Brittany. The 88-year-old fashion designer was also known for his eccentric predictions.
[Updated Feb. 3, 11:03 p.m.] Paco Rabanne is dead. The news came this Friday, February 3, 2023. Le Télégramme first reported the death of Francisco Rabaneda y Cuervo, his real name. Paco Rabanne died at the age of 88 in Finistère. For several years now, he has retreated far from the spotlight and red carpets and led a quiet life in the small town of Portsall, where he packed his bags in 2002. The fact remains that the Franco-Spanish, who arrived in France to escape the civil war raging on the other side of the Pyrenees, forever marked the history of fashion. Dubbed the “metallurgist” of fashion, due to the original materials of his creations, which sometimes lacked thread and fabric, according to his detractors, Paco Rabanne will forever remain a fashion icon.
Among her favorite models, Kathy Jean-Louis reacted to the death of Paco Rabanne this Friday, February 3, through her friend, journalist Christina Kelly. “I was very lucky to be his muse. It was exciting. Twenty years! A daring and unusual artist. A simple and humble man,” she confided, while Maison Paco Rabanne paid tribute to its “visionary creator and founder.” “Among the most influential fashion figures of the 20th century, his legacy will remain a constant source of inspiration. We are grateful to Monsieur Rabanne for establishing our avant-garde legacy and defining a future of limitless possibilities.” But if Paco Rabane left behind many perfumes and clothing creations, this great couturier will also mark the spirits with his personality as well as… his many wacky predictions.
His most famous prediction remains the one about the fall of the Mir space station over Paris. On May 10, 1999, Paco Rabanne was a guest on the show On s’entretien de vous, broadcast on France 3. On this occasion, the couturier came to talk about the prophecy he saw, which set Paris on fire and says in the book 1999: the fire of heaven . The man then predicted the fall of the Mir station (the space station of the Soviet Union) on the capital on the day of the total eclipse scheduled for August 11 of the same year. In an archive published on the INA website, Paco Rabanne explains:
“When I was 17 years old, I had flashes, when I arrived in Paris, people burning alive, screaming, and I saw these people throwing themselves into the Seine. I began to study all the prophecies. All the prophecies said that one day the main the city of Gaul would burn. But with what fire? Two years ago I had incredible flashes and thought that a comet, something fiery, was coming to Paris, falling from the sky. I realized while talking to a CNRS researcher that nothing had fallen from the sky, except maybe, he told me, Mir. And in Mir there is plutonium and maybe an atomic battery or something worse. And that is the worst thing I have seen because all the prophecies talk about it. I even found the name Mir in Nostradamus. The prophecies of other seers announcing that of the destruction of Paris during the darkness of the day. It is the eclipse that has been announced.”
The fall, announced for August 11, is therefore clearly not coming. Before that date, Paco Rabanne said he would remain silent “forever” if nothing happened, adding: “I will never speak about the prophecies or this subject again, anywhere.” As reported by Sud-Ouest, Paco Rabanne, however, published his mea culpa in the columns of a regional daily the following day. Visibly not very proud, he admitted his mistake. Paco Rabanne also confided that he “feels a great shame” and “deserves all the hype” caused by his apocalyptic statements.
Also in 1999, Paco Rabanne stood out for his other statements. In the new book Trajectory. From life to life, he sometimes presented himself as the High Priest in Thebes, the killer of Tutankhamun, but also as a prostitute at the court of Louis XV. – “I served fresh meat,” he declared. on the set of Thierry Ardisson-, or like living on Earth for 78,000 years and meeting aliens. So many crazy statements that led him to withdraw from public life and be more discreet since the beginning of the 21st century quietly settled in Brittany.
Francisco Rabaneda y Cuervo was born on February 18, 1934 in Pasajes, Spain, in the Basque Country. With his mother, they flee from the civil war in Spain and settle in France, in Brittany. His father, a colonel in the Spanish Republican forces, did not follow them and was killed by Franco’s soldiers. Paco Rabanne grew up in Morlaix, before going to Paris to study at the National School of Fine Arts. After graduating, he began making accessories for haute couture clothing, before presenting his first collection in 1966, which was out of place, composed of rhodoids and metals.
Over the years he has built up a solid reputation in the capital and has never stopped designing clothes, including clothes for Françoise Hardy. A follower of experiments with new materials (especially paper, metal), he is distinguished by not using thread and needle, as his detractors said. Paco Rabanne reached the pinnacle of his career in 1990 when he received the Dé d’or, a title awarded to the best haute couture collection. In addition to clothing, he also made a name for himself in perfumery, developing perfumes from the 1970s that were part of his success. At the same time, he started a magazine, opened a production house, a space for recording, rehearsals and production, and ran a club. His personality is also remembered for his many, often wacky, predictions.
If Paco Rabanne was nicknamed the metallurgist of fashion, there is another thing that made him stand out: even before Yves Saint Laurent, he was the one who in 1964 evoked in August 2021 VanityFair, dressed by a black model, putting the black identity at the center attention on the high fashion catwalks. Among his favorite models we find Donyale Luna, who was the first black model in history, according to Madame Figaro, Katoucha known as the Fulani princess, Kathy Jean-Louis, Nelly Kéïta or even the Burundian princess Esther Kamatari. A penchant for black culture and identity that has long earned him enmity. “Rabanne is still banned from appearing in the American fashion press because he shows his creations on black models,” wrote journalist Gérard Lefort in the columns of Liberation in 1998.
The co-creator of the Black Sugar club, where the Afro-Caribbean youth of Paris gathered for a time, also founded an art and work center near Stalingrad in 1983, which can be accessed for free. Center 57. Objective: to welcome artists from the black Parisian diaspora, whether musicians or dancers, as well as street groups formed by young people from the neighborhood. The center was finally closed in 1985, after complaints from the neighborhood. But Paco Rabanne did not stop there, he founded his own record company with which he again accompanied many black artists.
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