17thCentury

B&F Magazine

A 17th-Century Mansion Reimagined for the Future

THE 1960S CLOTHING designer Paco Rabanne was an unrepentant optimist. His chain-mail halter tops and micro-mini shifts strung together from metallic paillettes reflected the dream of a cleaner, cheerier planet — either ours or one far away. While today’s fashion futurism tends to be dystopian — somber cloaks, thigh-high black latex boots — the Basque-born Rabanne envisioned […]

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