Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo (born 18 February 1934), more commonly known under the pseudonym of Paco Rabanne (French: [pako ʁaban]; Spanish: [ˈpako raˈβan]), maybe a Spanish dressmaker of Basque origin who became called a recusant of the 1960s French fashion world.

Rabanne was born 18 February 1934 within the Basque town of Pasajes, Gipuzkoa province. His father, a Republican Colonel, was executed by Francoist troops during the Spanish warfare. Rabanne's mother was chief seamstress at Cristóbal Balenciaga's first couture house in Donostia, Basque Country, and moved Rabanne's family when he opened Balenciaga at Paris in 1937, thanks to the Spanish war. In mid-1950s Paris, while studying architecture at l'École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Rabanne earned money-making fashion sketches for Dior and Givenchy, and shoe sketches for Charles Jourdan, nevertheless he subsequently took employment with France's foremost developer of concrete, August Peret, working there for over ten years.

Rabanne is understood for the green costume worn by the actress within the 1968 science-fiction film Barbarella. Françoise Hardy was an enormous fan of Rabanne's designs. For Tour 1996 and also the resulting Live à Bercy, singer Mylène Farmer had Rabanne do her live-concert stage costumes.

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In 1994, Rabanne wrote the book, Has the Countdown Begun? Through Darkness to Enlightenment.

In 2005, Rabanne opened in Moscow, Russia, the primary exhibition of his drawings. His reasoning for showing the drawings then was, "I am 72 years old and that I wanted to present my drawings this year before disappearing from this planet. I've got not shown them to anyone except Salvador Dalí 30 years ago who told me to stay going.

"One in all the black-and-white sketches depicts a baby letting go of a dove and a white balloon into the sky, which he said was inspired by the commemoration ceremony for the 2004 Beslan attack in Beslan, North Ossetia, within which 319 hostages were killed, including 186 children, 12 servicemen, and 31 hostage-takers. Rabanne wanted the money that the drawing sold for to travel to the ladies of Beslan.

In 2006, Rabanne visited Kyiv, Ukraine. He summed up the changes since the Orange Revolution: "Ukraine strikes a chord in my memory of a flower unfolding its petals before my very eyes." A re-edit of his classic "le 69" bag was relaunched by Comme des Garçons.