166 Quotes by Sonia Rykiel

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.

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.

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

My favourite feature is my hair. It has always made me look different. It was so red when I was born that my mother thought I had blood on my head. When I was a teenager, I looked like a tomboy, but then I understood that I could be a woman who was an intelligent mix between a lady and my mannish side.

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

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

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

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

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.