Agnès B: Film & Fashion
By: Boyd Davis
Photo below: Agnès B. store window
Photo Boyd Davis

French designer Agnès B was born Agnès Troublé in Versailles in 1941. She studied at Versailles’s Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

After graduation, she worked as a junior editor at French Elle before becoming a designer, press attache and buyer to Dorothée Bis in Paris.

From 1965-1966, she worked as a freelance designer for Limitex, Pierre d’Alby, V de V and Eversbin.

In 1966, she established the CMC (Comptoir Mondial de Creation), the holding company for Agnès B. In 1975, she established the first Agnès B Boutique at Les Halles Paris. The shop, a former butcher shop complete with black and white tiling 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 - Agnès B clothes are geared for the "real people." 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.

In 1980, Agnès B opened her first US boutique in SoHo, New York. In 1987, she launched "Le B Perfume," a skincare and cosmetics range and a maternity collection. Agnès B also has shops in London, Amsterdam and Tokyo.

Website: www.agnesb.fr

Press Contact:
AGNES B:
Marie Schneier
Martine Coureau
194 rue de Rivoli
75001 PARIS
FRANCE
Tel: +33 1 49 60 03 41
Fax: +33 1 42 60 45 61

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