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from the beginning

agnès b. opened her first shop on Rue du Jour in Paris in 1975. Since then, she has designed clothing for men, women, and children that reflects the spirit of the age by creating a wardrobe that can easily adapt to every personality and can be worn for a very long time. Today, agnès b. continues to design each collection that bears her name, including accessories, watches, jewelry, and sunglasses. The company has more than one hundred shops throughout the world. A family enterprise, a civic enterprise, agnès b. tries as much as possible to keep her production in France.


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agnès b. chairman of La Cambre's jury
As every year, the Brussels school of La Cambre presented its end of year fashion show.4th and 5th years students were judged by professionals' jury chaired by Agnès b.The Boghossian Prize was thus awarded to Lucas Sponchiado and the magazine Le Vif l'Express Prize to Lea Peckre.
Agnès b. Officer of the "Légion d'honneur"
We are happy and proud to announce that Stéphane Hessel, Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur and Ambassador of France, confered the Cross of Officer of the Légion d'honneur on Agnès b., in a ceremony which took place February 18th.Stéphane Hessel was born in Berlin in 1917, and is the son of the writer Franz Hessel who inspired the character of Jules in [... ]
The agnès b. trademark is registered
agnès b. established her clothing label in 1973. She took the “b.” from the surname of her first husband, publisher Christian Bourgois. Her first daughter was born this same year.
First store opens
Together with Jean René de Fleurieu, her husband at the time and the father of her two youngest daughters, agnès b. opened her first store in an old butcher’s shop at 3, Rue du Jour, near Les Halles in Paris, which was then the central market of the city. During this time, the area was going through a radical change, the Pompidou Centre was just completed and the central [... ]
Founding of agnès b. worldwide
In 1980 agnès b. created her first subsidiary in New York with a first store in Soho, an unusual area for fashion at the time. She discovered the young graffiti movement for which she developed a strong interest.
first menswear store
With a new women’s store open at 2, Rue du Jour, the original store at 3, Rue du Jour, became the first men’s store. 
agnès b. for children
The children’s collection is born! Babies, kids, teenagers… they can be dressed in agnès b. too!
Opening of the Galerie du Jour
In 1984, shortly after the opening of the Rue du Jour store, agnès b. opened the Galerie du Jour. “I always wanted to create a gallery to be able to show what I love. It is called a gallery, but one could say it is a place to show the various faces of things. I would also like to imagine new ways of circulating images and give everyone access to it.” With a strong [... ]
Founding of agnès b. Sunrise
In 1984, agnès b. and Jean René de Fleurieu created agnès b. sunrise in Japan. The success is extraordinary: no less than fifty stores were opened in only a few years.
 
 

 
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FREE RETURNS

For a period of 10 days after you receive your parcel, agnesb.com will pay for the cost of returning any articles you do not wish to keep (offer valid only for packages posted in Metropolitan France).

In each package you will find a label marked Colissimo Services France, together with a RETURNS VOUCHER.
All you have to do is place this RETURNS VOUCHER inside your package (this is necessary for your order to be processed), stick the Colissimo Services France label on the outside and take it to the post office. Your parcel will be given priority treatment and we will proceed to reimburse the returned products.
So in future you can try on the goods you have purchased in the peace of your own home and take your time to decide.

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