Claire Tabouret “Les Drôlesses”

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While at home during the lockdown of 2020, agnès b. began to take photographs using two paintings by French artist Claire Tabouret, dressing them up with clothing from her own wardrobe. The results are 80 color photographs and the new exhibition, les drôlesses, opening Thursday, September 8, at the agnès b. Galerie Boutique in New York.

“In 2016, I purchased these two portraits, overwhelmed by their presence and their famous ‘off-camera’ gaze that makes them quite secret.” – agnès b.

Through these images, les drôlesses (the little girls), tells the story of the young and mischievous agnès and the timeless pieces she has created that have made the brand the iconic label that it is today. The images reflect agnès b.’s own childhood, her relationship with art, and more than 40 years of passion for photography, design, and art that are integral to agnès b.

“My father Ado Troublé, who had three daughters within four years, would sometimes say to us, ‘Come my drôlesses!’ That’s why my two models, my two friends from the lockdown in spring 2020, are called that… They kept me company, inspired me, and made me happy.” – agnès b.

A 120-page catalog, les drôlesses - agnès b. interprets CLAIRE TABOURET, was published for the exhibition in 2021 and will be for sale at agnès b. stores and online at www.agnesb.us for $35. For each catalog sold, four euros will be donated to Secours Populaire, a French non-profit organization founded in 1945 dedicated to fighting poverty and discrimination in public life.

Claire Tabouret was born in 1981 in France and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She works with figurative subject matter, using loose expressive brushstrokes in a broad palette, mimicking both artificial and natural hues and has exhibited artworks worldwide.

Designer, philanthropist and committed patron of the arts, agnès b. has promoted artistic freedom, the environment, and social causes for many years. She opened her art center, La Fab., in Paris in February 2020 to bring all of these causes together under one roof.

Since the beginning, agnès b. developed a style that is simultaneously subtle, chic and casual, helping to turn the Parisian designer into a fashion icon, a “style, a state of mind.” As she once said, “Clothes for me are all about feeling in harmony with yourself to be able to think about something else. They are only a means. If I can help people to feel good, to feel attractive, so much the better. That’s what brings me pleasure.”