PARIS — “I make clothes that you dress in, not to show off with.”

For Agnès Troublé, the founder of French family-owned brand Agnès b., stylish clothes for everyday life have been the endgame for the past 50 years and that’s what she’ll be putting on the runway on Monday.

Never mind that her designs have landed on a host of boldface names that includes Madonna, David Bowie, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Patti Smith over the decades — she’s even prouder of seeing her label on the streets, worn on young and old, men and women, the well-to-do and scrappy types alike.

For this self-professed owner of “an elephant’s memory,” it’s always been about what comes next.

Under the Gothic arches of the Collège des Bernardins, it will be “a show that’s 50 years of style plus the spring 2026 collection

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