Top 147 Quotes & Sayings by Sonia Rykiel
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French designer Sonia Rykiel.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.
People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.
Wherever I go, I buy shoes.
My fashion has no time, no season. It doesn't go out of style. If someone decides that clothes can go out of fashion, then you are deciding a woman can go out of fashion.
What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes.
How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet pumps. They are only good if you walk like a ballet dancer, and only ballet dancers do that.
I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted and myself.
I want women to learn to find themselves.
The pill was the liberation of the spirit of women.
To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.
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.
I always believe in pants. You can play with your legs, your attitude, with pants. It's much more funny. It's much more sophisticated. It's much more arrogant, like a man with feminine attitude. I love pants.
My only ambition was to have 10 children. Fashion was an accident.
As soon as the show is over, I always think, 'How will the woman I design for go forward?' It's so important to start quickly because I can't let her get away.
A woman and a dress, very often, fight against each other because they are not at the same place. Sometimes you see the woman moving the belt around. She is making the robe her own. She needs that. Otherwise, the dress doesn't exist.
I wanted a maternity dress, but I couldn't find anything I liked. Everything was abominable. So I made one. Then I made a pullover. 'Elle' put it on the cover. Then WWD elected me the Queen of Knitwear.
We are working women. Also, we have the problem of children, of men, to take care of our houses, so many things. I try to explain that in my clothes. They are clothes for everyday life. That is the real life of woman.
I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant.
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!
It's important to keep on keeping on, to feel good about yourself and be happy with who you are.
Fashion should be a kind of bouillon de culture.
I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again.
Women should look at themselves and decide for themselves what color or length they should wear.
You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it.
1968 was the beginning of the hippie movement in fashion. That movement made fashion change completely. It was not necessary to be always dressed up. You could be dressed the way you wanted - it was absolute freedom.
Knowing yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are, is the beginning of beauty. I think the most important thing is to show off what's most beautiful about you and to hide what's less beautiful.
I don't want to show my pain. I resisted; I hesitated. I tried to be invisible, to pretend that nothing was wrong. It's impossible; it's not like me.
I don't think that clothes have anything to do with the personality. That comes from the woman herself.
To be modern is to be aware of what is going on.
A man is attractive when he is slightly disturbing like a woman, a woman when she's a little disturbing like a man.
I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.
For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game.
I have the impression that the women around me are like me - smaller, taller, fatter, thinner - but in fact, we are all the same.
My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.
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.
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!
Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.
Since I didn't know anything, I did everything I wanted.
I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put a woman in a blue dress. I wanted to dress women who wanted to look at themselves. To stand out. To be women who were not part of the crowd. A woman who fights and advances.
It is interesting to see what other designers do, and not work in a vacuum.
I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made.
I hate wasting time getting dressed. I like to put something on and just think, 'Yes. That's it.'
I don't know how to knit.
The key to my collections is sensuality.
My breakfast is very important.
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.
It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.
My color is black. And black, if it's worn right, is a scandal.
You can have a conversation with your eyes.
Artifice is art.
Paris was a melting pot.
Women often stop me in the street.
When a woman confuses what she is with what she wears, then something is wrong inside.
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.
Everyone knows that life is very expensive and you can change, you can turn, you can play with clothes with a lot of accessories.
With only one bag, you can change your outfit completely.
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.
The Rykiel woman? She doesn't have time to stop time. She's too busy running. In her hands she's carrying a tote, a baby, a book, a camera.
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.
A dress will never make a woman sexy, fatale, magnificent, mysterious. It's a way of walking, of standing, or existing, the way you give your hand or your regard. That's what makes the dress.
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