The Friday 3 February the famous Spanish designer Paco Rabanne died in his plot of the French brittany, namely in Vannes. Although it was commonly known as Paco Rabanne, his real name was Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo and was born in the País Vasco on 18 February 1934, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, son of the chief seamstress of Balenciaga and a republican general who was shot by the Francoists. By this reason, he and his family felt indebted to do exiled France when he grieves was a boy. He studied initially in architecture, and afterwards he incorporated to the Escuela Nacional Superior de Bellas Artes of Paris.
The first advancing the news were the French media 'Le Télegramme' and the French edition of 'Vanity Fair', after the mayor of the town where resided Rabanne, David Steal, confirmed the rumors of the loss of the designer.
Minutes after the news, the group Puig, issued a press release in which it regretted the news on the death of the designer and perfumer: "The collaboration between the designer and the fashionable company and beauty began to finals of the years 60 when Antonio and Mariano Puig, members of the second generation of the familiar company Puig, visited to Rabanne in his offices near of the Folies Bergère, in Paris. They sealed a loyal alliance with an able designer to move the passion and the juvenile rebellion to scents of success", explained the communiqué of Puig. The company founded by Antonio Puig in Barcelona purchased of definite way the signature Paco Rabanne in the year 1987.
Jose Manuel Albesa, president of the division Beauty and Fashion of Puig, wanted to highlight the influence of Paco Rabanne: "With his death, we remember once again his enormous influence in the contemporary fashion, a spirit lives on in the Maison that bring his name". The Executive President of Puig, did the same by his part: "His great personality transmitted, through an unique aesthetics, his brave, revolutionary and provocative vision of the world of the fashion. He will being important source of inspiration for the fashionable teams and scents of Puig, that work jointly to express the radically modern codes of Paco Rabanne."
Between the professional path of Paco Rabanne stands out the have received the Premio Nacional de Diseño de Moda n the year 2010. He presented his first collection in the year 1966, composed by 12 dresses that highlighted by his manufacture and the use of the contemporary material. He was responsible for designing accessories for brands such as Givenchy, Balenciaga or Dior. He also worked as a perfumer and his fragrances were very successful. His first 'pine' in the world of perfumery was when he launched the market 'Paco Rabanne pour homme' and was such a success, that today, after 50 years, continues to be marketed. They highlight 'Lady Milion', 'Olympéa', in perfumes for her, and '1 milion', 'Black XS' and 'Invictus' for him.
The Basque was considered, as it aims Vanitatis, one of the 3 pillars of the futurism, with Pierre Cardin and André Courrèges. Between his main muses, stand out Jane Inn, Audrey Hepburn, Emily Ratajkowski, Luma Grothe or Carla Bruni. Coco Chanel, gave a nickname to Paco Rabanne as 'The metallurgist of the fashion' by the absence of scissors, needles and threads in his designs.
Numerous figures related with the world of fashion, beauty, modelling and skilled media in fashion, regretted the demise of Paco Rabanne. The past Sunday, in the gala of celebration of the Grammys, some artists as for example Cardi B surrendered tribute to the figure of the designer.