timeline

The Puig Group buys the sewing workshop. Rabanne continues taking over the fashion part.

He wins the Beauty-Industry Award for the design of the bottle of the “Calandre” perfume.

On February 1, the first collection-manifesto is presented at the Georges V Hotel in Paris: twelve unbearable dresses made of Rhodoïd discs and plates. “(…) My first collection coincided with the birth and flourishing of the Women’s Liberation Movement, (,,,) Dressing women in metal and covering them with coats of mail was, in a way,…

Manufactures buttons and embroidery for haute couture firms (i.e. Nina Ricci, Balenciaga, Philippe Venet, Pierre Gardin, Givenchy, etc.).

Designs bags for Roger Model and shoes for Charles Jourdan. He is awarded the Laurel at the Paris Biennial.

Studies architecture at the École National Supérieure de Beaux-Arts, in Paris.

His father is captured and executed by Francoist troops during the Spanish civil war. The family flees to France and settles in Morlaix firstly, and in Sables -d’Olonne later on.

Francisco Rabanne Cuervo was born in Trintxerpe – Pasaia (Basque Country) on February 18, 1934. He was the co-founder and honorary president of the Fransico Rabaneda Cuervo Foundation.