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HE’s the Spanish designer that helped define the swinging sixties, dressing the likes of Françoise Hardy, Elizabeth Taylor and even created the iconic Barbarella costume for Jane Fonda.
And after years as Spain’s top fashion master, Paco Rabanne turned 87 in style yesterday (February 18).
Born in 1934 in the Basque town of Pasajes, Paco family escape to Paris after his father, a Republican Colonel, was executed by Franco’s troops during the Spanish Civil War.
Paco’s mother, who worked a a chief seamstress at Cristiobal Balenciaga’s first couture house in Donostia, later assisted Balenciaga when he opened first store in the French capital in 1937.
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