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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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
