Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel née Flisis a French fashion designer...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth25 May 1930
CountryFrance
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.
children important family-life
It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc.
important breakfast
My breakfast is very important.
important
I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.
writing night important
In the same way, I can wake up with a very positive idea of what I want to do for my collection, and be completely desperate at night regarding the same thing. And I do a lot of other things too: Writing for me is almost as important as drawing my collection.
fashion what-matters important
Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.
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.
design
I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.
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.