![]() “Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women to clamor for dresses made of plastic and metal? Who but Paco Rabanne could imagine a fragrance called Calandre - the word means ‘automobile grill,’ you know - and turn it into an icon of modern femininity? “Paco Rabanne made transgression magnetic,” said José Manuel Albesa, president of Puig’s fashion and beauty division. Rabanne’s experiments in dresses and accessories made of metal or Rhodoid plastic discs, introduced in Paris and New York, intrigued and inspired subsequent designers ranging from Jean Paul Gaultier to Miuccia Prada, Thierry Mugler to Yves Saint Laurent. The others were Pierre Cardin and André Courrèges. Through his design vision, Rabanne anticipated the Millennium as early as 1966 - and was among a clutch of designers in Paris plying Space Age fashions. ![]() A total artist who, through the expression of his personal utopia, has contributed to changing the vision of the world. Rabanne, thank you for having been a couturier who defined a new modernity, who accompanied a cultural revolution. Julien Dossena, who has been creative director of the Paco Rabanne fashion house since 2013, paid tribute to the founder’s avant-garde vision. A couturier who broke new ground in fashion since his first show in Paris.” Valentino Garavani agreed: “He changed it all and surprised us in the late ’70s….Surprise is always a good thing in fashion!”īruno Pavlovsky, president of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, said: “Paco Rabanne was a major fashion designer who never stopped exploring traditional know-how and new techniques with audacity and eccentricity. “It’s always sad when a visionary leaves us.” A few days before he died, Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé were joined in a same-sex civil union known as a "civil pact of solidarity" in France.“I remember the powerful impression that the costumes he created for Jane Fonda in ‘Barbarella’ by Vadim had on me, as much as his unmistakable way to mold unusual materials in wearable shapes did,” he continued. Yves Saint Laurent is best know for revolutionizing the fashion industry by empowering and transforming women. He gave them the idea of wearing men’s clothing such as pants and suit jackets, and yet remaining feminine, sexy and elegant. The beatnik look, safari jackets, tight pants and tall boots, and the classic tuxedo suit for women were also some of the fashion trends that YSL made popular in the 1960’s-70’s. The Smoking Jacket of 1966 remains his trademark item and was updated yearly until he retired.Ī pioneer in his day, he was the first to popularize ready-to-wear fashion and also the first designer to include black models in his runway shows. Pierre Berge, Yves Saint Laurent’s close friend and business partner of many years has said that Chanel gave women freedom and Yves Saint Laurent gave them power. Yves Saint Laurent died of brain cancer on Jin his Paris home. In 1966 they also created the Rive Gauche boutiques for women. Later however, in 1962 Yves Saint Laurent opened his own fashion house, YSL, with his close friend and business partner Pierre Berge. In 1960 he was drafted into the French Army during the Algerian War of Independence. Due to the stress of army life, he suffered from a nervous breakdown and was admitted into a French mental hospital, where he underwent psychiatric treatment, including electroshock therapy. At the age of 21, Yves Saint Laurent was named the head of the House of Dior when Christian Dior died in 1957. Yves Saint Laurent was born Augin Olan, Algeria. Considered a fashion designer prodigy, his first big break came early at the age of 17 when he won a contest for a cocktail dress design sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat. A year later he was introduced to Christian Dior who was so impressed with his exceptional talent that he hired him immediately.
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