RIP (Picture: Getty)
Fashion designer Paco Rabanne, born Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo, has died at the age of 88.
The news of his death was confirmed by Puig, the Spanish firm that owns his eponymous fashion house and fragrance company.
In a statement obtained by WWD, José Manuel Albesa, president of Puig’s fashion and beauty division, said: ‘Paco Rabanne made transgression magnetic. 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?’
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