Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by stripes from the start. On clothing, they follow a woman's movements. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
From the very beginning I've said to women not to follow the fashion rules blindly, and to adapt clothes to suit who… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I can be happy with something I did, like a drawing or a dress I designed, and yet be very disappointed with… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I always believe in pants. You can play with your legs, your attitude, with pants. It's much more funny. It's much more… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
The knitted jumper comes in different trends, colours, shapes, and is adaptable in various ways when wearing. But there are also different… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Fashion is also a form of art, and like every kind of art, it has its own way of expression. In other… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I think that there are so many women who understand nothing about clothes and they should try and understand themselves before they… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
A scarf has to be the most beautiful thing ever invented to wear! It's a winding, a continuity, an infinity! I love… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I couldn't have opened a store without putting books with the clothes. I am still writing as I have always done, and… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I'm not at all interested in doing clothes for movies or stage, in stage dressing or costuming. Nor can I design lingerie,… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I don't think that clothes have anything to do with the personality. That comes from the woman herself. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I wanted a maternity dress, but I couldn't find anything I liked. Everything was abominable. So I made one. Then I made… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I care a lot about my looks, although I'm not too adventurous. Every day I dress the same way in a kind… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show,… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I have never followed fashion. What is fashion to me? I just think of things that inspire me, that inspire women, and… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
When I started in fashion, for the first 10 years, I said to myself every day, 'I'm going to quit tomorrow.' — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
A woman and a dress, very often, fight against each other because they are not at the same place. Sometimes you see the woman… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share
My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share
My first conversation of the day is with my daughter, Nathalie. I call her every morning; it is a ritual. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share
Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share
How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet pumps. They… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share
Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share
I hate wasting time getting dressed. I like to put something on and just think, 'Yes. That's it.' — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share
As soon as the show is over, I always think, 'How will the woman I design for go forward?' It's so important to start… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share
I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share
For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game. You have to be luxurious… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share
I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share
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