Clothes, perfume… and prophecies. The Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne, who died this Friday at the age of 88 at his home in Ploudalmézeau (Finisterre), was not content with leaving his mark on fashion with his creations. He also marked public opinion with his fascination with the occult.
From doomsday predictions to statements about his past lives, the fashion designer’s alleged eccentricities have delighted the media throughout his career and helped shape his media persona.
It was at the age of 60 that Paco Rabanne revealed the details of his interest in mysticism with the book Path (Michel Lafon), published in 1990.
“I started my esoteric research at the age of 7,” he confided to Thierry Ardisson a few years later. “I started to get out of my body, to do astral travel.”
“But my grandmother, who was a magician, told me: ‘Shut up, don’t talk about it.’ (…) I continued working in silence and when I reached 60, I said to myself: ‘Enough! I’m at the end of my life, I’m going to testify'”.
The 1999 solar eclipse, its apocalypse
In fact, many mystical-spiritual discourses had already come to polish his career: “I am a medium, I know very well all the prophecies of the coming times”, he had assured in particular in a television report dated 1978. “Occasionally Sometimes when I walk down the street in Paris I stop, frozen, so much the screams of people being burned alive ring in my ears.
This was his main hobby: the announcement of a cataclysm that would kill burning Parisians in 1999, detailed in a book called 1999, fire from heaven published by Michel Lafon that year.
He announced the destruction of the French capital due to the fall of the Mir station, based on a very personal reading of Nostradamus’s prophecies, which would take place on August 11, the day of the solar eclipse. A book written to alert the population: “I cannot, on this date, retire to the countryside leaving 20 million corpses behind me,” he declared on a literary program.
to the Gers
Precisely, he had already announced in May the office that “a few cities in the southwest will also be affected. Mirande, Auch, Condom, Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne), (which) will receive some debris from the Russian station.”
Words that did not please Philippe Martin, then General Counsel of the Gers. He had announced “a proceeding against Mr. Paco Rabanne for poor dissemination of information likely to harm the image, tourism and economy” of the department. Of course, on August 12, Paris and the Gers were still standing.
78,000 years of existence
Believing in reincarnation, he had repeatedly relied on his past lives. He explained that he had been high priest in Thebes and signed the assassination of Tutankhamen, or else officiated as a prostitute lover of Louis XV. “My earliest memories go back 78,000 years,” he said. During his current lifetime, he also claimed to have received divine and extraterrestrial visits.
His prophecy about the collapse of Paris was not the only one that turned out to be false. In 1978 he predicted in a television report that by the year 2000 haute couture would have become “an archeological, obsolete term, completely swept away by history.” The trace left by his own collections will have shown the opposite.
Source: BFM TV
