“I want to be an accelerator of decomposition”. A sentence worth of an architect, a sculptor, at the service of the female body. Paco Rabanne incarnates the avant-garde of the 60s, the symbiosis of art, fashion, and the prosaic. He opened windows onto a story in which metal becomes a liquid, paper luxurious, and rhodoid shimmering. Alchemist of materials, he is perhaps the artist that takes up where Baudelaire left off, responding to the famous verse “You gave me your mud and I made it into gold”.<\/p>\n
Gold: a precious metal that inspired the designer, who was excited by its thousands of reflective glares. A speckle of light is infused by fashion of the 30s as well, made of sequins and festive lam\u00e9. The metal used by Paco Rabanne is worked like a silky tissue to become a shifting liquid mirror on the magnified body of a woman. No more needles and thread, the garment is fashioned with the aid of rings and rivets. The most significative and iconic of these metal dresses remains the one that was worn by Fran\u00e7oise Hardy in 1968 during the inauguration of the international diamond exhibition in Paris. Composed of a thousand platelets and five million gold rings, this dress is also decked out with 22 enormous diamonds on the neckline. This carnal audacity, aesthetic and elegant, will be forever engraved in our memories.<\/p>\n
Lydia Maurer, creative director for the brand since June 2012, is imbued with what fashion means according to Paco Rabanne, with his signature. She also brings a certain freshness to the table. For next winter, the metal dress is present as well, an eternal go-to for the brand. The idea of “metal jersey” or “liquide metal” according to Paco Rabanne is intensified. The chain mail spirit is eased up and liquifies itself until it almost melts in perfectly with the body, fashioning itself like the second skin of a modern day mermaid. “The challenge will be to make the architectural and avant-garde spirit of the original creations coexist with a real wardrobe, relevant in 2012. Bringing warmth, lightness, and suppleness to a style that wasn\u2019t necessarily meant to be sold, all while recreating the hypnotic magic that in my eyes characterizes the style [of the brand]” said Lydia Maurer. Paco Rabanne: forever an architect of the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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