Portrait of Paco Rabanne, dated 1997. Getty Images:
Throughout his career, the visionary couturier stood out with a number of eccentric statements.
August 11, 1999: On that day, Paco Rabanne predicted: At 11:22 a.m. during the solar eclipse, the Mir space station will collide with Earth. Falling debris should destroy Paris and other cities in Gers. Couturier there relies on a very personal reading of the prophecies of Nostradamus. Of course, the accident will never happen. On the other hand, it would certainly tarnish the reputation of the man Coco Chanel liked to call “the metallurgist.”
In the video, the great couturier Paco Rabanne died in France at the age of 88
Because yes, Paco Rabanne, who died in Portsalle in Finisterre this Friday, February 3, was as much a fashion genius as he was a follower of esotericism. A passion that consumed him from his earliest childhood. “My mother was very pragmatic, but my grandmother was a shaman. He introduced me to the knowledge of the world very early, he admits in an interview in 2005, as AFP recalls. Fashion allowed me to make a living, but it wasn’t really my focus. A look back at his riskiest confessions and predictions.
She is the reincarnation of Louis XV’s mistress
Believing in reincarnation, the fashion designer claims to have had several lives, including as Louis XV’s mistress, the “whore” of the Palais-Royal. “I served fresh meat,” he specifically said in May 1999 on the set of Thierry Ardison. Paco Rabanne doesn’t stop there. He also claims to have seen God (three times a priori), communicated with Jesus, killed Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and received visits from aliens.
She lost her virginity on Earth
Half-medium, half-preacher Paco Rabanne happily recounts the first time he made love to the Earth by digging a hole in the ground.
The Mir space station crash will destroy Paris
But his most publicized prediction would remain the destruction of Paris on August 11, 1999, with the fall of the Russian Mir space station. Other cities in Gers are believed to suffer the same fate, according to Couturi. In sight: Marmande, Auch, Condom or Mirande. Natural? The predicted accident will never happen. Faced with the impossibility of his vague theory, he makes an about-face and excuses himself by referring to the problem of calculating dates. In October of the same year, he sent his my fault in the columns of Paris game . “Since August 11, I have been living with the feeling of excessive work and I am getting paid for it. I have been the target of many insults and all kinds of outbursts. The mockery: I deserved it and I don’t discuss it. But, in my case, nothing justifies hatred, he laments. I publicly apologized to those whom I misled. And I say, I say again, that I regret it. And that I will always regret it.” Despite everything, the media lynching will make him more reserved. Brought to his home in Brittany.
Source: Le Figaro
