Paco Rabanne, a fashion world innovator whose designs in the 1960s helped define the decade’s vibe of rebellion and space-age glamour with metal-plated dresses and the skintight green catsuit worn by Jane Fonda in the 1968 sci-fi cult film Barbarella, has died aged 88.
Over the decades, the Spanish-born Rabanne built a global brand widely known in retail settings for perfumes, men’s fragrances and off-the-rack outfits and, in the couture world, for runway collections that experimented with colours and materials such as plastics, paper and even coconuts.
