French - Designer | May 25, 1930 -
I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made.
Sonia Rykiel
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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.
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I don't know how to knit.
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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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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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When I started in fashion, for the first 10 years, I said to myself every day, 'I'm going to quit tomorrow.'
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People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.
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The lead of a film that wove around me, I played all the roles. I traveled the world; I loved life, pleasure. I adored to write, create.
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I am a perfectionist. It has always been this way.
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I have never followed fashion. What is fashion to me? I just think of things that inspire me, that inspire women, and I design that way.
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I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.
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My mother knitted a lot, but I never did; it was no fun.
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