Paco Rabanne creative director Julien Dossena is the latest designer to take inspiration from the California desert and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival scene. Dossena came to Los Angeles after his first appearance at the Met Ball (with date Michelle Monaghan) to celebrate a collaboration with Just One Eye on two exclusive styles of the Paco Element bag.
The small and medium bucket totes, which launched during Coachella, were fashioned in nude and camel vegetable-dyed leather and retail for $1150 and $1390, respectively.
“The leather tans with the sun, we thought it was kind of L.A.,” said Dossena, who used a silver material for the liner to represent the technology industry of the Golden State.
The Elements bag was introduced two years ago and fashioned after a leather dress Dossena created in one of his early collections since taking the design helm at Paco Rabanne four years ago.
Kacy Hill with the Paco Element bag at Just One Eye.
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“The idea with the leather dress was a play on the Paco Rabanne Assemblage bag that was more minimal. Then we applied it to accessories, because the two were talking to each other,” he said, noting the Paco bags with shiny pastilles are
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