A woman and a dress, very often, fight against each other because they are not at the same place. Sometimes you see… — 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 wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people. — 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
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 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
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'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
First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
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
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
1968 was the beginning of the hippie movement in fashion. That movement made fashion change completely. It was not necessary to be… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
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 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 was fascinated by stripes from the start. On clothing, they follow a woman's movements. — 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 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
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
You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I married a man who was in fashion. I began to work when my daughter Nathalie was about eight or 10 years… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
My clothes are put together out of different basic elements so that a woman can express the way she wants to look,… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
My first conversation of the day is with my daughter, Nathalie. I call her every morning; it is a ritual. — 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
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 Image
Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I hate wasting time getting dressed. I like to put something on and just think, 'Yes. That's it.' — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
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 Image
I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image