Agnès b.
French fashion designer (born 1941)
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- (born Agnès Andrée Marguerite Troublé , 1941) is a French fashion designer with a namesake fashion label.
- She uses her brand to finance art and cinema projects.
- Agnès married and had children with Christian Bourgois, who later became a successful book publisher.
- She began working at Elle magazine after a fashion editor noticed her personal style and offered her a job.
- In 1976, she opened her first boutique in Les Halles.
agnès b. (born Agnès Andrée Marguerite Troublé, 1941) is a French fashion designer with a namesake fashion label. Her designs are characterized as simple and accessible, and her signature item is the snap cardigan.
She uses her brand to finance art and cinema projects.
Life and early career
Agnès was born and raised in Versailles, and was one of four children.
Agnès married and had children with Christian Bourgois, who later became a successful book publisher. They separated when Agnès was 20, but she kept the "B" from his surname for her brand.
She began working at Elle magazine after a fashion editor noticed her personal style and offered her a job. Agnès worked as a junior fashion editor, then pivoted to freelance fashion design.
In 1976, she opened her first boutique in Les Halles. Agnès was influenced by clothes she'd find at the flea market, and her designs were simple and easy to wear.
Snap cardigan
Agnès designed the snap cardigan in 1979, when she cut up a crewneck with scissors and added snap buttons. It became a "worldwide hit", and an "ageless, timeless wardrobe staple from New York to Tokyo to Paris".
To celebrate 40 years of the design, Agnès hosted an exhibition titled "Photographers… Artists and the Snap Cardigan", with over 70 photographers taking pictures of the cardigan, including Juergen Teller and filmmakers Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch.
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