Paco Rabanne

Paco Rabanne and Ted Lapidus – Ted Lapidus File Photos – Paris – Paris, France – Keywords: Ted Lapidus with the marriage of his son Olivier Lapidus – False – – Photo Credit: Pixplanete / PR Photos 

Birth Name: Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo

Date of Birth: 18 February, 1934

Place of Birth: Pasaia, Gipuzkoa, Spanish Republic

Date of Death: 3 February, 2023

Place of Death: Ploudalmézeau, France

Ethnicity: Basque

Paco Rabanne was a Basque fashion designer. He was born in Spain and lived mostly in France.

He was born in Pasaia, a Basque town. His father was a Republican Colonel who was executed by Franco’s forces. His mother was chief seamstress at Cristóbal Balenciaga’s couture house in Donostia, Basque Country. After his father’s execution, his mother moved the family to Paris in 1939.