166 Quotes by Sonia Rykiel

I don’t like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.

For me, luxury isn’t just the real thing. It’s also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It’s a game. You have to be luxurious nude.

Even if I’m in Japan and I don’t speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn’t speak French but she’s dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

It doesn’t matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don’t question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that’s all that matters.