Paco Rabanne

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Rabanne's mother was a chief seamstress at Cristóbal Balenciaga's first couture house in Donostia, Basque Country, and in 1939 she moved Rabanne's family to France after he opened Balenciaga in Paris. For Tour 1996 and the resulting Live à Bercy album, singer Mylène Farmer commissioned Rabanne to create her live-concert stage costumes. One of the black-and-white sketches depicts a child letting go of a dove and a white balloon into the sky, which he said was inspired by the commemoration ceremony for the 2004 Beslan attack in Beslan, North Ossetia, in which 319 hostages were killed, including 186 children, 12 servicemen, and 31 hostage-takers. It is important to note that the longevity factor alone should not be the sole determinant in choosing a perfume. Paco by Paco Rabanne is an older choice, first appearing back in 1995, but it is as appealing as ever.

In mid-1950s Paris, while studying architecture at l'École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Rabanne earned money making fashion sketches for Dior and Givenchy, and shoe sketches for Charles Jourdan. Rabanne died at home in Portsall, Ploudalmézeau, France, on 3 February 2023, fifteen days short of his 89th birthday. Although he didn't consider himself a futurist, Rabanne's most famous contribution to the fashion industry was arguably his futurist space age designs. For the debut of his namesake brand in 1966, he presented "Manifesto: 12 unwearable dresses in contemporary materials".In 1968, Rabanne began collaborating with the fragrance [17] company Puig, which resulted in the company marketing his perfumes. He claimed he had lived several lives (including that of a prostitute in the time of Louis XV), to have known Jesus in a previous life, to have seen God three times, to have been visited by extraterrestrials, to have murdered Tutankhamun, [34] and to be 75,000 years old.

Longevity in perfumes refers to the duration of time that a fragrance remains detectable on the skin or in the air after it is applied. He created a number of highly successful scents, including Paco Rabanne Pour Homme, 1 Million, and Lady Million. In 1999, he announced that, at the age of seventeen, he had visions of Parisians in flames throwing themselves into the Seine and that after studying other concordant prophecies, he came to the conclusion that the Mir space station was going to crash in France at the time of the solar eclipse of 11 August 1999, its debris causing thousands of deaths in Paris and in the Gers region. Rabanne was also the recipient of several awards, including the Legion of Honour, which recognised his contributions to the arts and fashion.

The court reasoned that because Puig's local distributor was smuggling perfume into Brazil, the company could not show proof of payment of import duties.

In mid-2013, Belgian and former Balenciaga designer Julien Dossena was appointed creative director of womenswear at Paco Rabanne.

This blend combines the austere qualities of an aromatic with the freshness of citrus for a complex and yet not over-powering result.