How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels? Sonia Rykiel More Quotes by Sonia Rykiel More Quotes From Sonia Rykiel It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry. Sonia Rykiel runway cry useless The key to my collections is sensuality. Sonia Rykiel sensuality collections keys I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that. Sonia Rykiel fashion proud interesting With the exception of lingerie and theater I'm interested in everything to do with clothes and perfumes: everything which is an extension of woman. Sonia Rykiel lingerie clothes theater I think that the boy-woman is a very strong image and a lot of fascinating women are like that: Gala [Dalí]. Sonia Rykiel strong boys thinking 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. Sonia Rykiel girl light mother My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival. Sonia Rykiel survival shows My breakfast is very important. Sonia Rykiel important breakfast I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself. Sonia Rykiel sweaters design body I love chocolate. Black chocolate with marshmallow inside, caramel inside. If I could only have two foods, I'd take some fantastic chocolate. And some terrible chocolate. I love the Clark Bar. Sonia Rykiel black chocolate two 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. Sonia Rykiel style fashion creative 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. Sonia Rykiel fashion real art The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed. Sonia Rykiel certain fashion way You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust. Sonia Rykiel proust knows 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. Sonia Rykiel creating girl trying I will be working on the collection until the day before the show! It's an endless process, that's all that I can say at that stage. Sonia Rykiel endless stage process I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris. Sonia Rykiel san-francisco paris hippie I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me. Sonia Rykiel i-can important museums [Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it. Sonia Rykiel opinion creative heart I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am very attentive to critics, they let me go ahead and push myself harder to continue. Sonia Rykiel let-me-go helpful smart
