Paco Rabanne, the French fashion house, was founded in 1966. The house’s first perfume is the now-legendary women’s scent Calandre, introduced in 1969. A series of innovative fragrances in distinctive bottles for both men and women have followed. Francisco “Paco” Rabaneda Cuervo, the Spanish-born fashion designer more widely known as Paco Rabanne, fled Spain with his family during the Spanish Civil War. Growing up in Paris, he is an architect by training, but he started his fashion career designing jewelry for other houses before trying his hand at clothing design. He quickly became known for his eclectic fashions featuring unconventional materials such as metal and paper.