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Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

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Sonia Rykiel
Age: 86 †
Born: 1930
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: August 25
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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.
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I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.
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Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.
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I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.
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You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.
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How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?
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It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc.
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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!
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The key to my collections is sensuality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.
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Perfume follows you it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.
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