Sonia Rykiel Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Girl, Mother, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My breakfast is very important.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Important, Breakfast

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• I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Hippie, Paris, San Francisco

  Source: fashioninterviews.blogspot.com

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• I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Museums, Important, I Can

  Source: fashioninterviews.blogspot.com

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• 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.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Smart, Helpful, Let Me Go

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• When I was a kid, all I liked were books and chocolate.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Book, Kids, Chocolate

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• 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.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Daughter, Directors, Care

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• 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.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Years, Creating

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• 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!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Kids, Careers

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• It was by coincidence that I ended up opening my first shop in 1968, and I haven't stopped since. I now find myself trying to do everything. I couldn't live without creating my collections, without writing, drawing and reading. But I couldn't either live without being close to my children on a daily basis and also to my grandchildren, and to all the people I love. I guess I am like every woman today, one who juggles her work and family life.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Children, Reading, Writing

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

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• 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!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Queens, Husband, Boys

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Sweaters, Design, Body

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Proust, Knows

  Source: fashioninterviews.blogspot.com

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• The knitted jumper comes in different trends, colours, shapes, and is adaptable in various ways when wearing. But there are also different noticeable marks of Sonia Rykiel brand, like black stripes which are very recognisable too.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Black, Stripes, Different

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• 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.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Writing, Night, Ideas

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why I have kept a real relation with the Art world, by putting books from the beginning in my shops' windows.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Art, Real

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Way, Certain

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• We are not saying that all women should be thin like these very thin and young girls. We are creating a show, with its artistic codes and rules, and we have to try not to mix up all the codes together.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Girl, Creating, Trying

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• [Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Heart, Creative, Opinion

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• 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!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Car, Leap, Behinds

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Running, Attitude, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Clothes, Design, Lingerie

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Japan, Speaks French, Common

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

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• I love chocolate. Black chocolate with marshmallow inside, caramel inside. If I could only have two foods, I'd take some fantastic chocolate. And some terrible chocolate. I love the Clark Bar.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Two, Chocolate, Black

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