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Fashion Quotes by Sonia Rykiel

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A woman and a dress often clash, showing how fashion can feel like a tug of war between personal comfort and style expectations. Sonia Rykiel questions industry rules, high heels, and the idea that fashion must be art, preferring inspiration that fits her own vision. She also declares black, when worn right, as a scandalous statement.

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Fashion should be a kind of bouillon de culture.

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Wherever I go, I buy shoes.

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I was fascinated by stripes from the start. On clothing, they follow a woman's movements.

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How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

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I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.

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I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.

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You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

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Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

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As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

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Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.

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I wanted a maternity dress, but I couldn't find anything I liked. Everything was abominable. So I made one. Then I made…

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

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

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I care a lot about my looks, although I'm not too adventurous. Every day I dress the same way in a kind…

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When I started in fashion, for the first 10 years, I said to myself every day, 'I'm going to quit tomorrow.'

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I always believe in pants. You can play with your legs, your attitude, with pants. It's much more funny. It's much more…

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What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes.

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From the very beginning I've said to women not to follow the fashion rules blindly, and to adapt clothes to suit who…

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My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why…

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A scarf has to be the most beautiful thing ever invented to wear! It's a winding, a continuity, an infinity! I love…

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I couldn't have opened a store without putting books with the clothes. I am still writing as I have always done, and…

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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…

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I think that there are so many women who understand nothing about clothes and they should try and understand themselves before they…

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Fashion is also a form of art, and like every kind of art, it has its own way of expression. In other…

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The knitted jumper comes in different trends, colours, shapes, and is adaptable in various ways when wearing. But there are also different…

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

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With only one bag, you can change your outfit completely.

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I don't think that clothes have anything to do with the personality. That comes from the woman herself.

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In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial.

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My color is black. And black, if it's worn right, is a scandal.

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My only ambition was to have 10 children. Fashion was an accident.

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I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.

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The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed.

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I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture…

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I can be happy with something I did, like a drawing or a dress I designed, and yet be very disappointed with…

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People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a…

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How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet…

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I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of…

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

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

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

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.

My first conversation of the day is with my daughter, Nathalie. I call her every morning; it is a ritual.

Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.

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…

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.

I hate wasting time getting dressed. I like to put something on and just think, 'Yes. That's it.'

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…

I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made.

Paris was a melting pot.

To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.

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…

I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again.