Latest Sonia Rykiel Quotes from Interviews

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Identity, Today

  Source: fashioninterviews.blogspot.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• From the very beginning I've said to women not to follow the fashion rules blindly, and to adapt clothes to suit who they are, and not the contrary.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Clothes, Suits

  Source: www.stilorama.com

• 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

• Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Sometimes, Unfair

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

• [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

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

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Way, Certain

  Source: www.stilorama.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I feel like a slave, and in a way like an artist, because I need to get inspiration everyday, from everything and everyone.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Inspiration, Artist, Everyday

  Source: www.stilorama.com

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

  Sonia Rykiel

  People, Listening, Sometimes

  Source: www.stilorama.com