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The key to my collections is sensuality.

Sonia Rykiel

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Sonia Rykiel
Age: 86 †
Born: 1930
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: August 25
Businessperson
Designer
Fashion Designer
Grand Couturier
Writer
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Sonia Flis
Sensuality
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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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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.
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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.
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First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.
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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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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.
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How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?
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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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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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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!
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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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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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Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.
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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].
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You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.
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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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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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