Paco Rabanne is a fashionable provocateur

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

In July 1999, the presentation of the haute couture collection autumn-winter 1999/2000 took place, which determined an important stage in the life of the House: Rabanne announced that from now on he would not personally deal with high fashion, and would go headlong into ready-to-wear. And he handed over further work on the creation of the House's collections to a team of young fashion designers. Rabanne brought the last collection to Moscow Fashion Week along with the new Ultraviolence fragrance. The audience saw a sophisticated silhouette, explosive colors and shapes that cut the space with their geometry, herald the arrival of the millennium. Metallic leather paired with faux fur, lantern-shaped dresses, capes and coveralls in bright ultraviolet light, piercing pink, acid green and sparkling yellow. A cosmic look: outfits that create metallic optical illusions, chain mail, metallic jersey and sequin chains complete with long camisoles and straight bodycon dresses, sparkle of diamond meteorites. Electric frost: a thin plastic film catches the light on boleros and loose satin trousers, metal jumpers tied with huge needles, jewelry on long tight skirts and velvet straight trousers the color of the night. In the latest collection, Rabanne recalled the most famous places in Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Sydney and New York - in paintings on silk and on sparkling silver plates. The conclusion of the collection is a wedding dress: under a mantle made of golden lace, the bride, like a Russian nesting doll, is wrapped in a dress-coat made of mouse-colored fur, embroidered with golden tulips.

More recently, Rabanne discovered a new area for himself. His first book, Trajectory, published in 1991, became a bestseller and sold over 500,000 copies. Soon a second appeared - "The End of Times", in which he called on humanity to penetrate deeper into the essence of things and moral values, to care for others. Both books have been translated into five languages. In 1994, Paco Rabanne wrote a new book, Le Temps Present: le chemin des grand inities, a personal guide on how to become brighter and more sincere in our changing age, continuing the theme of the first two books.