What is Paco Rabanne?
{{Infobox fashion designer | name = Paco Rabanne | image = French couturie Paco Rabanne visited Kyiv in 2006.jpg | birth_name = Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo | birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|02|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = Pasajes, [[Spain]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|02|03|1934|02|18|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Ploudalmézeau]], [[France]] | education = | occupation = [[Fashion designer]] }} '''Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo''' (18 February 1934 – 3 February 2023), better known as '''Paco Rabanne''', was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[fashion design]]er. == Early life == At the age of five, he and his mother, a head seamstress at [[Balenciaga]], escaped the Spanish Civil War by fleeing to France. There, he assumed the name Paco Rabanne. By the early 1960s, after training as an architect, he applied his skills towards avant-garde accessory design, proposing unique creations for several haute couture houses.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pacorabanne.com/ww/en/storypacorabanne|title=storypacorabanne {{!}} Paco Rabanne|date=2020-04-27|website=web.archive.org|access-date=2020-05-20|archive-date=2020-04-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200427013703/https://www.pacorabanne.com/ww/en/storypacorabanne|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> == Career == He became notorious in the 1960s for creating bizarre yet influential garments made of unusual, nonwoven materials such as plastic and aluminum.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www3.fitnyc.edu/museum/loveandwar/rabanne.htm|title=MFIT- Love and War- Paco Rabanne|date=2006-09-03|website=web.archive.org|access-date=2020-05-20|archive-date=2006-09-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903065914/http://www3.fitnyc.edu/museum/loveandwar/rabanne.htm|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> He left the fashion scene in 1999 to devote himself to other activities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mylene.net/mylene/paco-rabanne.php|title=Mylene.Net - Le site référence sur Mylène Farmer|last=HOFER|first=Jul