Please consult our Personal Data section for more information on cookies and here to control them. I took a large pair of scissors and began cutting my sweatshirt without realizing that I was creating something! The prince street, first store in new york, is opened in , in soho. The store in 3 rue du Jour became the first men store. You will also find exhibitions there put on by the galerie.
I hope that it will become a vibrant place people will want to come back to, and hang around. The success is immediate. These pictures are exposed at the galerie du jour, in too.
Pure lines and beautiful materials are used for each collections, for woman and man. The organisation assists war orphans or war disabled children in returning to school or university, and allows them to participate in educational and leisure activities. A mix collection for the youngs, composed by hooded t-shirts in jersey cotton with or without sleeves, some sweaters in fleeced jersey, some accessories… Some garments easy to wear and comfortable for sport!
Tara expeditions is a french non-profit organization active since in favor of the environment. A legendary boat built for extreme conditions, Tara is the platform for high-level scientific research missions. A big fashion show and a concert were organized at the Olympia in Paris to celebrate the 30 years. I was so sad when it stopped. It did not change enough. Unbelievably, she was born Agnes Trouble, and, through her first marriage, became Agnes Bourgeois. She still likes to see herself as a bit of both, a lefty with several homes and a global brand, but, these days, despite the politically correct gateaux, her subversion is mainly creative.
She is drawn to mavericks and outsiders, and numbers film director Harmony Korine and young American photographer Ryan McGinley among her close friends. She and Korine have formed a film company, called O'Salvation, which is currently in production on his third film, provisionally titled, Miss Lonely, and starring Samantha Morton and Anita Pallenberg. When I ask her the same question, she says, 'I like to be a catalyst, to make things happen for people.
That, alongside my own work, is my greatest pleasure. She grew up, one of four children, in a big country house near Versailles, and describes her parents, the Troubles, as 'a classic, conservative, Catholic couple'. She was raised in the faith, and still considers herself a Catholic, but not in the traditional sense. She was encouraged in her creativity by her father, a lawyer, but had a more prickly relationship with her strict, authoritarian mother. She once said that she never wanted to be a grown-up, and there is the sense that this is still the case.
At 17, she fled the family home, and soon after married a fellow student, Christian Bourgeois. At 20, she was already divorced, a single parent with two children, who maintained her stylish look by trawling the Parisian flea markets. Her quirky personal style caught the eye of a fashion editor at Elle, who offered her a part-time job, and, soon after, she became a freelance fashion designer.
In , a converted butcher's shop in Les Halles became her first store, and a signature for what was to follow. How long did it take her to hit on the signature look? I still do the striped shirt with the long sleeves, the snap cardigan, the long black dress from 30 years ago. People still come up to me and speak very intimately about certain items of clothing as if they are talismanic. For someone who never planned for tomorrow, she has done pretty well.
She tells me proudly that she has never once taken out advertising in a magazine. Because all these youths see are images of expensive cars they can never have. Buy this one. Buy that one. It makes people angry and frustrated.
Advertising is terrible. But fashion, I say, is perhaps the most socially exclusive industry. It excludes most of the population by the price tag alone. As a teenager, if you do not have the right shoes, you are looked at as a fool.
They make the shoes in Korea for so little, then they pay for so much advertising that they have to charge so much for the same shoes. It is wrong. Very wrong. Her idealism seems to hail from another time. The left have been left behind. And, it is hard to be young now also. The young are scared of the future. They retreat into security, they talk all the time about careers.
It is a little tragic. We were never thinking like that in our day. We lived only in the moment. Agnes remains on good terms with Christian Bourgeois, the father of her twin sons, and Jean-Rene de Fleurieu, her original business partner, with whom she has two daughters.
It was a big discovery for them of my other life. Her other life is devoted mainly to the creative mentoring of radical talent. Her extensive collection of modern photography, which has recently toured France, includes work by Arbus, Bresson and Weegee, as well as many young photographers. It is to be exhibited in its entirety at a big London gallery later this year, but she refuses to reveal where.
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