Sonia Rykiel Quotes - Page 2

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• At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my home too. But I love to arrive in a hotel. They have books, chocolate, food. I put things in the little refrigerator.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Book, Home, Chocolate

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• I hate the word feminine! I mean, there is a woman and a man and when I say "woman" it suggests all that is radiant, tender, fascinating, gentle, demoniac, exaggerated! Feminine makes me think of somebody who is spindly and over-sweet: I don't like that!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Sweet, Hate, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Men and women are so alike that a woman must make an intellectual effort to differentiate herself. As soon as one understands who one is, one can disguise oneself any way one wants. As soon as one has found one's look, one's shape, one does not need to alter it too much, in fact I would say that one should not change it.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Men, Effort, Intellectual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 protection and a uniform can be just that.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Thinking, Clothes, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 cathedral.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Beautiful, Clothes, People

  Interview with Robert Murphy, wwd.com. October 1, 2008.

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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 the same drawing, or the same dress the day after.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Drawing, Dresses, Disappointed

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• 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.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Daughter, Fashion, Queens

  Source: fashioninterviews.blogspot.com

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• I will be working on the collection until the day before the show! It's an endless process, that's all that I can say at that stage.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Process, Stage, Endless

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• 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.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Creative, Style

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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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 have published my ninth book "L'envers à l'endroit" last year. I am currently working on a dictionary of my favourite words.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Stilorama Magazine Interviews Sonia Rykiel". www.stilorama.com. July 4, 2011.

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• It's important to know yourself well, in order to create your own style of fashion to suit your own body shape.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Order, Style

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• 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.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Real, Games, Luxury

  Interview with Rebecca Voight, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2008.

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

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Identity, Today

  Source: fashioninterviews.blogspot.com

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• It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Children, Important, Matter

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Survival, Shows

  Interview with Rebecca Voight, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2008.

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• As a young girl I was a real tomboy, only listening to myself. I carried on with this attitude even as a woman and when I first launched the Sonia Rykiel line, and said to women to remove their bras or when I designed sweaters with stitches inside out, everybody said to me that it was crazy and risky, but I ignored what they said and I did what I felt was right at the time.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Girl, Attitude, Crazy

  "Stilorama Magazine Interviews Sonia Rykiel". www.stilorama.com. July 4, 2011.

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• 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!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Running, Order, Dresses

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Useless, Cry, Runway

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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.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, People, Dramatic

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• The key to my collections is sensuality.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Keys, Sensuality, Collections

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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 words, if a dress looks better on a thin girl, on a catwalk, during a very specific moment of time and space then it's represented as part of a "fashion Show". It is after all a "Show" and it has to be understood by people that it is a "show" and not real life.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Girl, Fashion, Art

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• 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.

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  Fashion, Interesting, Proud

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• 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.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Hands, Clothes, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 of woman.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Clothes, Lingerie, Theater

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that the boy-woman is a very strong image and a lot of fascinating women are like that: Gala [Dalí].

  Sonia Rykiel

  Strong, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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