I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today. Sonia Rykiel More Quotes by Sonia Rykiel More Quotes From Sonia Rykiel Design job fell on me. I didn't want to do it. It was an accident. For the first 10 years I said, "Tomorrow I'm stopping." Sonia Rykiel design jobs years 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! Sonia Rykiel hate sweet mean For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story. Sonia Rykiel crafts stories character People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral. Sonia Rykiel clothes beautiful people Men and women are so alike that a woman must make an intellectual effort to differentiate herself. As soon as one understands who one is, one can disguise oneself any way one wants. As soon as one has found one's look, one's shape, one does not need to alter it too much, in fact I would say that one should not change it. Sonia Rykiel effort intellectual men 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 clothes house thinking 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. Sonia Rykiel clothes suits fashion 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. Sonia Rykiel sweaters dresses beautiful It's important to know yourself well, in order to create your own style of fashion to suit your own body shape. Sonia Rykiel style fashion order It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc. Sonia Rykiel important matter children I can be happy with something I did, like a drawing or a dress I designed, and yet be very disappointed with the same drawing, or the same dress the day after. Sonia Rykiel disappointed drawing dresses 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. Sonia Rykiel luxury real games 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. Sonia Rykiel chocolate home book As a young girl I was a real tomboy, only listening to myself. I carried on with this attitude even as a woman and when I first launched the Sonia Rykiel line, and said to women to remove their bras or when I designed sweaters with stitches inside out, everybody said to me that it was crazy and risky, but I ignored what they said and I did what I felt was right at the time. Sonia Rykiel crazy girl attitude 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. Sonia Rykiel fashion daughter queens I am like the lover of Roland Barthes "who's always running in his head". I'm always searching, and "eating" everything from my life, in order to put it in my dresses! Sonia Rykiel dresses running order I have the feeling I've always done what I wanted throughout my life. Sonia Rykiel done wanted feelings As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with. Sonia Rykiel dramatic fashion people Fashion is also a form of art, and like every kind of art, it has its own way of expression. In other words, if a dress looks better on a thin girl, on a catwalk, during a very specific moment of time and space then it's represented as part of a "fashion Show". It is after all a "Show" and it has to be understood by people that it is a "show" and not real life. Sonia Rykiel fashion girl art I always have a lot of vents and slits in the clothes I design, even inside the pockets so that I can slip my hands inside my clothes and touch my skin. I want to be able to feel my body naked inside my clothes. Sonia Rykiel clothes design hands
