French - Designer | May 25, 1930 -
I'm not brave, I'm not fantastic. I'm like any other woman. I'm unhappy. I'm difficult. I'm sad. Am I strong, too? Maybe, but not always. There are days when I don't want to see anyone. The most important thing you learn? You can live with it.
Sonia Rykiel
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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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I invented a sweater so small, so close to the body, that Women's Wear Daily nicknamed it 'The Poor Boy Sweater' and consecrated me queen of knitwear.
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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 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.
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A man is attractive when he is slightly disturbing like a woman, a woman when she's a little disturbing like a man.
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French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn't instilled in me as I grew up. I was taught that beauty comes from different places, from the inside and from the outside.
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Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.
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Fashion should be a kind of bouillon de culture.
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It is interesting to see what other designers do, and not work in a vacuum.
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You can have a conversation with your eyes.
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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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