Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel née Flisis a French fashion designer...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth25 May 1930
CountryFrance
design
I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.
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!
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.
jobs years design
Design job fell on me. I didn't want to do it. It was an accident. For the first 10 years I said, "Tomorrow I'm stopping."
fashion kids world
I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!
smart helpful let-me-go
I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am very attentive to critics, they let me go ahead and push myself harder to continue.
proust
You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.
fashion fashion-industry
The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed.
daughter care artistic
I am still taking care of the creation of the collection alongside my staff, and my daughter Nathalie Rykiel, is the artistic director of Sonia Rykiel, who takes care of a lot of things. We are very alike and also very close.
disappointed
I can be happy with something I did, like a drawing or a dress I designed, and yet be very disappointed with the same drawing, or the same dress the day after.
fashion identity today
I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.
fashion creative style
The fashion industry is a free world, with creative codes that can be hardly considered sometimes, but it's also up to women to create their own style, and own trend.
fashion style important
It's important to know yourself well, in order to create your own style of fashion to suit your own body shape.
husband boys different
My husband had a clothing store in Paris, and I had his factory make specifically for me something similar to the one I was looking for. We made it in different colours, and decided to sell them in the store...and in a day, they were sold out! This sweater became later known as the "poor boy sweater" and it ended up making the cover of Elle magazine, and in a day, I became the "Queen of knit", without knowing anything about knitting!