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Top 10 Remarkable Facts about Paloma Picasso

Paloma Picasso was born Anne Paloma Ruiz-Picasso y Gilot on 19 April 1949. She is a French and Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman. She is best known for her jewellery designs for Tiffany & Co, and her signature perfumes.

Paloma Picasso is represented in many of her father’s works, such as Paloma with an Orange and Paloma in Blue. She has gained an international reputation ever since she started her jewellery business. In the article are the top ten remarkable facts about Paloma Picasso.

1. Her father is Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. He was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century

He is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and the wide variety of styles he helped develop and explore.

Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.

2. Françoise Gilot is Picasso Paloma’s mother

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Marie Françoise Gilot is a French painter, best known for her relationship with Pablo Picasso, with whom she had two children. Gilot was already launched as an accomplished artist, notably in watercolours and ceramics.

Still, her professional career was eclipsed by her social celebrity. When she split from Picasso, he discouraged galleries from buying her work, as well unsuccessfully tried to block her memoir, Life with Picasso.

3. Paloma Picasso’s jewellery career began in 1968

This was when she was a costume designer in Â鶹APP. Some rhinestone necklaces she had created from stones purchased at flea markets drew attention from critics. Encouraged by this early success, the designer pursued formal schooling in jewellery design.

4. Yves Saint Laurent most likely brought light to Paloma’s career

Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent referred to as Yves Saint-Laurent or YSL, was a French fashion designer who, in 1962, founded his eponymous fashion label. He is regarded as among the twentieth century’s foremost fashion designers.

Yves Saint-Laurent is the one who commissioned Paloma to design accessories to accompany one of his collections. This was after Ms Picasso presented her first efforts to YSL who was then her friend. A friend in need is a friend indeed!

5. She once worked for Tiffany & Company

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Tiffany & Co. colloquially known as Tiffany’s is a luxury jewellery and speciality retailer, headquartered on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. It sells jewellery, sterling silver, porcelain, crystal, stationery, fragrances, water bottles, watches, personal accessories, and leather goods.

Picasso Paloma joined the company in 1980 after working for the Greek jewellery company Zolotas in 1971. Her post in Tiffany & Co. was a fashion designer.

In 2010, Picasso celebrated her 30th anniversary with Tiffany and Co. by introducing a collection based on her love of Morocco, called Marrakesh. In 2011, she debuted her Venezia collection, which celebrates the city of Venice and its motifs.

6. In 1984 Picasso moved to L’Oréal and started venturing into Fragrance

Picasso began experimenting with fragrance, creating the “Paloma” perfume for L’Oréal. In the New York Post Picasso described it as intended for “strong women like herself.” A cosmetics and bath line including body lotion, powder, shower gel, and soap was produced in the same year.

7. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1983

The International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame List was founded by fashionista Eleanor Lambert in 1940 as an attempt to boost the reputation of American fashion at the time.

The American magazine Vanity Fair is currently in charge of the List after Lambert left the responsibility to “four friends at Vanity Fair” in 2002, a year before her death.

8. She was featured in the 1973 film Immoral Tales

Picasso briefly lost interest in designing following the death of her father in 1973, at which time she played Countess Erzsébet Báthory in Polish filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk’s erotic film, Immoral Tales (1973), receiving praise from the critics for her beauty. She has not acted since.

9. She has been married twice

In 1978, Picasso married playwright and director Rafael Lopez-Cambil, also known as Rafael Lopez-Sanchez, in a black-and-white themed wedding. The couple later divorced.

In 1999, Picasso married Dr Eric Thévenet, a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. Thévenet’s interest in art and design has provided valuable insight into the creation of Picasso’s jewellery collections. Paloma Picasso and her husband live in Lausanne, Switzerland and Marrakech, Morocco.

10. Claude Picasso is Paloma Picasso’s older brother

Claude Ruiz Picasso is a French photographer, cinematographer, movie director, visual artist, graphic designer, and businessman. He is a child of Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso and the older brother of Paloma Picasso.

By a wish on Gilot’s part, he was named after Claude Gillot, a pioneering French Rococo artist and mentor to fellow artist Jean-Antoine Watteau. His name was Claude Gilot until age 12.