Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel née Flisis a French fashion designer...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth25 May 1930
CountryFrance
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 decision doubt
After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show, I keep questioning myself and wondering if I did the right thing.
men littles fabulous
The natures of men and women are very mixed and for me the most fascinating type of woman is the one who is a little masculine, has a little of the man in her, and the sort of man who is fabulous is the one who is a little woman too. It's impossible not to mix them!
thinking needs moments
I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.
silence behind-you perfume
Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.
fashion people dramatic
As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.
moments modern perfume
Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.
fashion art cake
It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.
intelligent men essence
The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.
daughter fashion men
I married a man who was in fashion. I began to work when my daughter Nathalie was about eight or 10 years old. Then one day I began to make a sweater, and eventually the sweater was on the front page of Elle magazine. And the day after I was the queen of knit in America.
expression color trying
Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain what I feel not only as a creator but also as a woman. I cannot separate one from the other.
hands soul mind
Your body can be very female, which is something you can do nothing about, but then you can have the soul, the mind and the spirit of both male and female. The women friends I am closest to somehow have this masculine side to them, they shove their hands in their pockets when they walk: I love that side.
people listening sometimes
I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.
fashion sometimes unfair
Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.