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You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.

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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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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 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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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 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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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 think in the darkest moments, we need a break.
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The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.
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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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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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