agnès b is a French fashion designer, best known for her self-named brand which started in Les Halles, Paris in 1975. agnès b. emerged as an international brand in 1983 with the opening of a U.S. store in the SoHo District of New York and has since expanded into London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai. She was powerfully influenced by the May 1968 student uprisings in Paris, when she marched and demonstrated with other young people against capitalism and conservatism. agnès has partnered with American film director Harmony Korine in the production company, O'Salvation, and runs her own film production company, Love Streams Productions. She opened the art gallery Gallerie du jour in 1984, and has shown hundreds of emerging and established artists.