At Fashion Week, the Paco Rabanne show pays tribute to its late founder

The Spaniard Francisco Rabaneda y Cuervo known as Paco Rabanne died on February 3, 2023 at the age of 88 in Finistère. But the house that bears his name continues to make its famous wire mesh dresses shine. This is what the Paco Rabanne autumn-winter 2023-2024 fashion show has just illustrated, artistically directed by Julien Dossena, and presented on March 1, 2023 as part of the Paris Fashion Week.

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The first looks line up baggy, fluffy, shaggy knits, followed by dresses in retro 70s prints, interspersed with sections of lace. Then a collaboration with the Gala-Salvador Dalí foundation surprised the public: some paintings by the Spanish painter were reproduced in full size to adorn dresses that flirt with the ground, ventilated by some cutouts at the level of the bust. Indeed, Salvador Dalí had given a performance for Paco Rabanne (about Amanda Lear, then serving as a model).

Julien Dossena’s tribute to the founder of the house Paco Rabanne

But it was above all the 6 final looks that took the audience’s breath away, since they seemed to come straight from the archives of the Paco Rabanne house: dresses in aluminum plates assembled with rivets. Reissued today, they clearly haven’t aged a bit. A sign of the revolutionary nature of the work of Francisco Rabaneda y Cuervo, known as Paco Rabanne, which today is reinvented with mastery Julien Dossena.