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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rabanne studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris but turned to fashion, supplying plastic buttons and jewellery to Givenchy, Dior, and Balenciaga. PACO RABANNE Aluminium Chainmail Dress 1966Īluminium discs and panels linked together by wire using pliers have replaced conventional fashion created by threads and needles in this space-fantasy costume. He predicted that womenswear would become at least as practical as menswear. His most characteristic symbol, often covering his dresses and bare body parts, was the youthful daisy. His miniskirts were stiff and square and advocated a minimum of body coverage, enjoying those “young” bodies that became visible in the 1960s. “I think the women of the future, morphologically speaking, will have a young body,” said Courrèges at the time. It was a movement that cut away superfluous material, banned decoration, and established geometry and new materials for fashion. Along with Pierre Cardin and Paco Rabanne, Courrèges led the cult of visionary fashion design in Paris. As we take a look back (to the future) at some of history's most "techie" fashion designers, we see how the manipulation of technology, old and new, has bred a cutting edge sartorial language in technique and material.įrom Phaidon's newest edition of The Fashion Book, here are 10 designers whose collections are what robot, space explorer, and Trekkie dreams are made of.Ī former civil engineer, André Courrèges placed the meticulous cut of fashion he had practiced in Balenciaga’s atelier in the 1950s in the service of the 1960s idealism of youth and the future. Hosted on the eve of the Met Costume Institute's exhibition opening Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, this year's star-studded annual Met Gala showcased a cast of celebrities and socialites wearing the crème de la crème of fashion's biggest names who have an eye on the future and a hand in the latest technologies. ![]()
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