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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
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Sonia Rykiel
Age: 86 †
Born: 1930
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: August 25
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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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My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.
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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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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!
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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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Your body can be very female, which is something you can do nothing about, but then you can have the soul, the mind and the spirit of both male and female. The women friends I am closest to somehow have this masculine side to them, they shove their hands in their pockets when they walk: I love that side.
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I think that there are so many women who understand nothing about clothes and they should try and understand themselves before they start putting on disguises: they should stand in front of the mirror for a day, two days or three, and find out what they have which is beautiful, interesting: what they should show: hair, neck, arms, or hands.
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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.
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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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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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I feel like a slave, and in a way like an artist, because I need to get inspiration everyday, from everything and everyone.
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How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?
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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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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 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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The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed.
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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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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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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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You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.
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