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" 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. "

Sonia Rykiel

Fashion

Woman

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" 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. "

" 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

Man

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" Wherever I go, I buy shoes. "

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Shoes

Wherever

" 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 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. "

Sonia Rykiel

Think

Way

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

" To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill. "

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Revolution

Pill

" I don't know why some women don't wear make-up. Every woman should gild the lily. "

" I don't read e-mails because I hate them. "

" With only one bag, you can change your outfit completely. "

" 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. "

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Beautiful

Woman

" I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant. "

Sonia Rykiel

Movement

Never

" 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! "

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Man

Men

" It's important to keep on keeping on, to feel good about yourself and be happy with who you are. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Women often stop me in the street. "

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Women

Stop

" The key to my collections is sensuality. "