Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them. — 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
I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people. — 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
It's important to know yourself well, in order to create your own style of fashion to suit your own body shape. — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that life is very expensive and you can change, you can turn, you can play with clothes with a lot… — 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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial. — 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
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
You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris. — 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
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
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
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
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
What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes. — 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
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
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