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Paco Rabanne

Paco Rabanne is a fashion designer born in Spain. Together with his mother, he fled Spain for France when the Spanish Civil War broke out. He was originally an educated architect, but in 1960s more known as the enfant terrible of French fashion world.
Paco Rabanne originally started his career in fashion-industry by creating jewellery for Dior, Balenciaga and Givenchy. In 1966, he started his own fashion house. For his flamboyant and outlandish designs, he used such unconventional materials as paper, metal and plastic.

Paco Rabanne is also a well-known film-costume designer, his costumes are to be seen in such films as Barbarella. Françoise Hardy was a big fan of Rabanne´s clothes.

Rabanne also is interested in paranormal phenomena. Because of his false prediction of the Russian space station Mir falling to Paris, he became infamous.