Sonia Rykiel

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

After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show,…

— Sonia Rykiel

I have never followed fashion. What is fashion to me? I just think of things that inspire me, that inspire women, and…

— Sonia Rykiel

As soon as the show is over, I always think, 'How will the woman I design for go forward?' It's so important…

— Sonia Rykiel

I don't want to show my pain. I resisted; I hesitated. I tried to be invisible, to pretend that nothing was wrong.…

— Sonia Rykiel

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

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

First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made…

— Sonia Rykiel

French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn't instilled in me as I grew up. I was taught that…

— Sonia Rykiel

I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am…

— Sonia Rykiel

I always have a lot of vents and slits in the clothes I design, even inside the pockets so that I can…

— Sonia Rykiel

A woman and a dress, very often, fight against each other because they are not at the same place. Sometimes you see…

— Sonia Rykiel

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist…

— Sonia Rykiel

The fashion industry is a free world, with creative codes that can be hardly considered sometimes, but it's also up to women…

— Sonia Rykiel

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me…

— Sonia Rykiel

My fashion has no time, no season. It doesn't go out of style. If someone decides that clothes can go out of…

— Sonia Rykiel

My clothes are put together out of different basic elements so that a woman can express the way she wants to look,…

— Sonia Rykiel

Everyone knows that life is very expensive and you can change, you can turn, you can play with clothes with a lot…

— Sonia Rykiel

1968 was the beginning of the hippie movement in fashion. That movement made fashion change completely. It was not necessary to be…

— Sonia Rykiel

A dress will never make a woman sexy, fatale, magnificent, mysterious. It's a way of walking, of standing, or existing, the way…

— Sonia Rykiel

We are working women. Also, we have the problem of children, of men, to take care of our houses, so many things.…

— Sonia Rykiel

Knowing yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are, is the beginning of beauty. I think the most important thing is…

— Sonia Rykiel

With the exception of lingerie and theater I'm interested in everything to do with clothes and perfumes: everything which is an extension…

— Sonia Rykiel

Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain…

— Sonia Rykiel