In 1966 Paco Rabanne presented a collection he titled Twelve Unwearable Dresses in Contemporary Materials, made from plastic discs and metal links joined with pliers rather than needle and thread. Paris had never seen anything quite like it. The Spanish-born designer, trained in architecture, had turned the couture dress into something closer to sculpture.
The house, now known simply as Rabanne, has carried that sense of futurism ever since. Chainmail, mirrored paillettes and gleaming hardware are its language, and the 1960s space age remains its spiritual home.
The codes
Metal discs and linked chain, worked like fabric. Reflective surfaces that move and catch the light. A bold, graphic silhouette with roots in the Paris of the sixties.
The denim
Rabanne approaches denim with the same appetite for metal. Hardware is bold and deliberate, shapes nod to the sixties, and the effect is a jean or jacket that feels unmistakably part of the house.
Why it's on jeans.com
Few houses have changed what a garment could be made of as completely as Rabanne. Its denim brings that daring to the most familiar fabric of all, and we are delighted to carry it.
