Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel née Flisis a French fashion designer...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth25 May 1930
CountryFrance
children important family-life
It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc.
clothes design lingerie
I'm not at all interested in doing clothes for movies or stage, in stage dressing or costuming. Nor can I design lingerie, for I never wear any! At one time I used to wear a lot of lingerie but now I'm in a mood of total nudity!
car leap behinds
I love flinging everything I buy behind me onto the back-seat of the car: it's always full of packages when I travel, when I leap in my car!
running attitude men
I love to leave, to be ready-for, to be on the run! That's my boyish side, it's the pant's me! Pants which allow for the attitudes, gestures and movements of a man but that are still female in taste and free enough so that I can slip my hands inside!
hands clothes design
I always have a lot of vents and slits in the clothes I design, even inside the pockets so that I can slip my hands inside my clothes and touch my skin. I want to be able to feel my body naked inside my clothes.
useless cry runway
It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.
important breakfast
My breakfast is very important.
real games luxury
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 nude.
fashion interesting proud
I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.
important
I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.
clothes lingerie theater
With the exception of lingerie and theater I'm interested in everything to do with clothes and perfumes: everything which is an extension of woman.
running lovers eating
I am like the lover of Roland Barthes "who's always running in his head". I'm always searching, and "eating" everything from my life, in order to put it in my dresses!
girl mother light
A very young girl, myself, and my 70-year-old mother all look quite different wearing some of the same clothes from my shop. The whole secret is to know how to do it and some people never will, just like some can't make light pastry: they are lacking in some sort of grace.
hippie feminist feminist-movement
I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.