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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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" 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. "

Sonia Rykiel

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" It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry. "

" 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 don't think that clothes have anything to do with the personality. That comes from the woman herself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Paris was a melting pot. "

" I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

Sonia Rykiel

Queen

Daily

" My mother knitted a lot, but I never did; it was no fun. "

" My only ambition was to have 10 children. Fashion was an accident. "

" I have the impression that the women around me are like me - smaller, taller, fatter, thinner - but in fact, we are all the same. "

Sonia Rykiel

Fact

Impression

" Women should look at themselves and decide for themselves what color or length they should wear. "

" Like Picasso, I go through blue periods, green periods, or grey periods. "

Sonia Rykiel

Blue

Through

" When a woman confuses what she is with what she wears, then something is wrong inside. "

" When I started in fashion, for the first 10 years, I said to myself every day, 'I'm going to quit tomorrow.' "

" You can have a conversation with your eyes. "

" To be modern is to be aware of what is going on. "

" Since I didn't know anything, I did everything I wanted. "

" 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. "

" I was a tomboy, always fairly eccentric, and convinced I'd grow up to be an actress. "

" My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival. "

" I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion. "

" People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end. "