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" Fashion should be a kind of bouillon de culture. "
Sonia Rykiel
Fashion
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" The pill was the liberation of the spirit of women. "
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" I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes. "
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" I think in the darkest moments, we need a break. "
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" I don't know why some women don't wear make-up. Every woman should gild the lily. "
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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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" I was a tomboy, always fairly eccentric, and convinced I'd grow up to be an actress. "
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" I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work. "
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" I hate wasting time getting dressed. I like to put something on and just think, 'Yes. That's it.' "
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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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" 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. "
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" I just can't live without chocolate - I have between two and six pieces every day. "
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" Everyone knows that life is very expensive and you can change, you can turn, you can play with clothes with a lot of accessories. "
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" It's not true that clothes look better on skinny girls; what counts is the attitude. "
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" My breakfast is very important. "
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" Paris was a melting pot. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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 became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made. "
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" To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" It's important to keep on keeping on, to feel good about yourself and be happy with who you are. "
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