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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i love her first shop window
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