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Paco Rabanne Fall 2023 Paid Tribute to the Late Designer and Salvador Dali

The house leans into an otherwordly, surrealist aesthetic.

In the lead-up to its Fall 2023 show, Paco Rabanne took to Instagram and Twitter to share old clips featuring the founding designer, who passed away in early February. The clips were also teasers for a collection that would be heavily inspired by the prolific designer. 

On Wednesday in Paris, Julien Dossena, the house’s creative director since 2013, welcomed guests to the show with a signed note on each seat, thanking “Monsieur Rabanne” for his “utopic creative approach” and “radical expression.” 

In a venue enveloped in muted yellow tapestries and a soft plush runway, models walked out in contrasting silver chainmail hoods and perspex dresses, aluminum-foil suits with reflective white space boots, silver tinsel paired with a glittering gold sequined turtleneck. The delicate chainmail evening bags, a signature of the brand, also made several appearances on the runway.

Five archival looks ended the show “as a coda to the couturier’s legacy,” per the show notes. They exemplify Rabanne’s visionary futurism and the space-age aesthetic for which he became so well known in the ’60s, and prompt the viewer to reconsider how unconventional materials can be used to fashion clothes. 

Photo: Imaxtree

Equally in tune with this other-wordly theme: borrowed imagery from Salvador Dali‘s surrealist paintings. With participation from the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, the collection features “Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening” featuring growling, fearsome tigers; “Meditative Rose,” featuring a levitating rose, as well as “The Shades of Night Descending” and “Sun-Table.” These images were printed on on paneled, maxi-length dresses. The crossover between the fashion designer and Spanish painter is a fitting one; as mentioned by Vogue, Dalí once boasted: “There are only two geniuses in Spain: me and Paco Rabanne.”

See every look from Paco Rabanne’s Fall 2023 collection below.

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

Paco Rabanne Fall 2023. Photo: Imaxtree

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