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Agnès B: ‘I hate fashion. It’s not interesting.’
The designer, 83, tells Hayley Myers about her troubled childhood, love of art, and how she persuaded David Bowie to drop the dodgy brown suits
I sent him a pair of black leather jeans with a note in the pocket that said “You should stick to a rock ’n’ roll style.” He bought more pieces from me, then I dressed him for 25 years including his 50th birthday at Madison Square Garden. When I’m in London I visit Gilbert and George at their house in Fournier Street in Spitalfields and Jay Jopling from the White Cube. Pierre Bergé[co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent] and I lay down in the middle of Rue de Rivoli to raise awareness of the Aids epidemic.
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