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" 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. "

Sonia Rykiel

Walk

Good

Life

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Through

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Sonia Rykiel

Beautiful

Woman

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

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" A woman who walks well parts crowds - it's something we should all be taught to do. "

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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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Fact

Impression

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Think

Way

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