French fashion designer Agnès Troublé—a.k.a. Agnès B.—is as well-versed in painted canvases and gelatin prints as she is in snap-button cardigans. Case in point: Her newly minted contemporary art museum, La Fab, which opened in Paris last month.
Located near the Francois-Mitterrand library in the street art–heavy 13th arrondissement, the two-level museum features just a fraction of her 5,000-piece personal art collection, with works ranging from Man Ray to Andy Warhol. The inaugural exhibit, “La Hardiesse” (or “Boldness”), is a reflection of the designer’s passion for courage and eccentricity: “Caravaggio, truly one of the boldest, has always dazzled me,” says Troublé. “I realize now that I am attracted to all forms of boldness in art.” It's an attitude that trickles down into the building itself, too. Designed by French architect Augustin Rosenstiehl, the exterior looks as if it were haphazardly constructed out of white lego blocks, a stark contrast to Paris’s typical Haussmannian façades…