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

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Sonia Rykiel
Age: 86 †
Born: 1930
Born: May 25
Died: 2016
Died: August 25
Businessperson
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Fashion Designer
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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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Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.
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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.
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I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.
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The key to my collections is sensuality.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my home too. But I love to arrive in a hotel. They have books, chocolate, food. I put things in the little refrigerator.
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Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain what I feel not only as a creator but also as a woman. I cannot separate one from the other.
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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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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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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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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 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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Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.
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