I like that Spain recognized the merit of the creators of fashion and I like to be recognized when they are still alive, when you can enjoy and where they're going to skin. A Paco Rabanne, metallurgy, gave him the other day the National Award for Fashion Design, awarded by the Ministry of Culture. Designer is the second recipient. In its first edition was awarded the Manuel Teruel Pertegaz, author of the wedding dress of the Princess of Asturias. The lady of the Rue Cambon, it must be a woman and . . . Coco Chanel, paco rabanne lady called metallurgy of fashion, because his whole desire was to bypass the traditional sewing bullfighter to use tongs and hammers with which to transform tissue materials like rhodium, aluminum, laser discs, mirrors and iridescent papers. A born innovator this Rabaneda Francisco Cuervo was born in San Pedro Passages (Guipúzcoa) in 1934. Republican whose father and mother communist, seamstress job, she had the honor of working in the shop that had opened Cristobal Balenciaga in San Sebastian, was exiled with his family to France where, despite years spent in the neighboring country also continues to Spanish nationality. Despite acknowledging that "uniformity is death", is usually dressed in black trousers and a shirt the same color or gray Mao neck. Austerity is errant. He rises at six o'clock and work until you drop. This strict discipline can be traced to the influence he had on his life, his mother, a prominent member of the leadership of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). This man, who hates the "fashion victims", considering that the intelligent woman should choose a fashion consistent with his personality, he left haute couture in 1999 to devote himself to prêt-à -porter. The Ministry of Culture has honored for "being Spanish fashion designer living more universal, for its innovation and contribution to all aspects of twentieth century culture, creating a new concept that is beyond any conventional classification by converting fashion in artistic expression of its time. " The metallurgy of fashion once said. .