Quotes from Sonia Rykiel

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.

It's not true that clothes look better on skinny girls; what counts is the attitude.

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.

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

It is interesting to see what other designers do, and not work in a vacuum.

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

I was fascinated by stripes from the start. On clothing, they follow a woman's movements.

I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.

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.

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.

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

Artifice is art.

I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted and myself.

I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.

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

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