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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. "
Sonia Rykiel
Fake
Diamonds
Game
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" Paris was a melting pot. "
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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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" My favourite feature is my hair. It has always made me look different. It was so red when I was born that my mother thought I had blood on my head. When I was a teenager, I looked like a tomboy, but then I understood that I could be a woman who was an intelligent mix between a lady and my mannish side. "
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" Women often stop me in the street. "
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Women
Stop
" I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made. "
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Knowing
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" I was fascinated by stripes from the start. On clothing, they follow a woman's movements. "
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Follow
Woman
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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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" I don't read e-mails because I hate them. "
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Because
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Read
" 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. "
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Two
Black
" When I started in fashion, for the first 10 years, I said to myself every day, 'I'm going to quit tomorrow.' "
Sonia Rykiel
Tomorrow
Day
Fashion
" My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it. "
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Way
Work
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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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Say
Me
Man
" 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. "
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Everything
Dress
Queen
" I wanted women wearing my sweaters to give the impression they were naked. The aim wasn't to impose outfits but to stay as close as possible to women's bodies and their freedom of movement. "
Sonia Rykiel
Naked
Possible
Aim
" 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. "
Sonia Rykiel
Camera
Woman
Time
" The key to my collections is sensuality. "
Sonia Rykiel
Collections
Sensuality
Key
" 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! "
Sonia Rykiel
Man
Me
Men
" 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. "
Sonia Rykiel
Dress
Moving
Place
" I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted and myself. "
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Listening
Wanted
Only
" 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. "
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Go
Fashion
Woman
" 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. "
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Impossible
Nothing
" Artifice is art. "
Sonia Rykiel
Artifice
Art
" 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
Thought
Fashion
Family
" My mother knitted a lot, but I never did; it was no fun. "
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Fun
No Fun
Lot
" My first conversation of the day is with my daughter, Nathalie. I call her every morning; it is a ritual. "
Sonia Rykiel
Day
Daughter
Conversation
" 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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Queen
Me
Daily
" 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. "
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Walk
Good
Life
" 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. "
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You
Funny
Love
" I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion. "
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Politics
Mother
Father
" I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work. "
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Supposed
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