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| French designer Agnès B was born
Agnès Troublé in Versailles in 1941. After graduating from Versailles’s
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, she soon secured a post as a junior editor at French
Elle before becoming an assistant to Dorothée Bis. After a short stint
working as a freelance designer for Limitex, Pierre d’Alby, V de V and
Eversbin, Agnès B opened her first Parisian boutique in 1975. The shop,
a former butcher shop complete with black and white tiling in Les Halles,
housed a debut collection of restyled, cut and dyed workers’ uniforms
and striped rugby shirts.
Agnès B was one of the first designers to tackle the "trend-setters"
head-on. Producing simple and chic collections season after season -
collections which she shows privately off-schedule at the Paris
ready-to-wear shows - she refuses to equate design with intricate
detailing. In fact, her signature style is best captured in the precise
tailoring of a crisp white shirt and the lasting luxury of a black wool
jumper. By 1980, the word had spread beyond her home country and Agnès B
opened her first US boutique in SoHo, New York. There she showed all her
collections - for women, men and children. In 1987, she launched her own
perfume,"Le B," a skincare and cosmetics range and a maternity collection.
She now also has shops in London, Amsterdam and Tokyo. |
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Agnès B, 17 rue Dieu, 75010 Paris. Tel: +33 1 40 03 45 00 | |