Paco Rabanne and the fashion of the future in 1971

Born on February 18, 1934 in the Spanish Basque Country, in San Sebastian, lhe Franco-Spanish fashion designer and perfumer Paco Rabanne died a few days ago at the age of 88. Mathieu Van Overstraeten pays homage to him in the 6/8 with a archive of the to my end and more precisely in 1971 in a show called Photography of the future.

The architecture will modify the way of life, the behavior and thus the way of dressing.

If today we wear heavy and restrictive clothes, it is because the architecture is isolated, he explained. Take for example: we leave extremely heated environments to go to the street where it is either very hot or very cold.

In the future, heavy clothing may disappear and light clothing will be sold: As everywhere in the world we will do more and more to other resources. All the novelty will come from synthetic fibers. The aspect of the street and fashion will change, we won’t have a lot of fabric on you, but not in the nudity because that would kill sexuality. Outfits will be lighter and easier to wear and live with.”.

One of the joys of life is sexuality and therefore clothing is necessary in order to excite the imagination and eroticism, essential in life.

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