Paco Rabanne.
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Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne, known for his eccentric clothing designs and for founding one of the world’s best-known fragrance brands, died on Friday at the age of 88.
Rabanne’s death was confirmed to AFP by his brand’s parent company, which said he had “marked generations with his radical vision of fashion and his legacy will live on.”
“Paco Rabanne made transgression magnetic. Who else could induce fashionable Parisian women to clamor for dresses made of plastic and metal?” said José Manuel Albesa, of Barcelona-based Puig, who has owned Rabanne’s label since the 1960s.
Rabanne was a key figure in the space age fashion movement of the 1960s, known for using metal and other unlikely materials in his outfits.
He teamed up with Puig in 1968 and they launched their first fragrance together a year later, leading to a line of perfumes that remains one of the most popular worldwide today.
“An important personality in fashion, his was a daring, revolutionary and provocative vision, conveyed through a unique aesthetic,” president Marc Puig said in the statement.
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