Dress

Designer Paco Rabanne French

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Paco Rabanne was a game-changing fashion designer who set a new course for fashion with his groundbreaking 1966–67 couture collection “Twelve Unwearable Dresses” made from industrial and household materials. With its allusion to chain mail, this dress establishes Rabanne's practice of citing historical elements fused with a Space-Age aesthetic. The innovative construction and unconventional use of novel postwar industrial materials epitomize the exploratory and experimental sensibility of Rabanne’s avant-garde fashion.

Dress, Paco Rabanne (French, born Spain 1934–2023), plastic, metal, French

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