Zitat des Tages von Sonia Rykiel:
I just can't live without chocolate - I have between two and six pieces every day.
I don't know why some women don't wear make-up. Every woman should gild the lily.
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.
Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.
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 mother knitted a lot, but I never did; it was no fun.
As soon as the show is over, I always think, 'How will the woman I design for go forward?' It's so important to start quickly because I can't let her get away.
People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.
At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my home too. But I love to arrive in a hotel. They have books, chocolate, food. I put things in the little refrigerator.
I don't know how to knit.
My breakfast is very important.
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 don't read e-mails because I hate them.
As soon as I am up, I brush my hair. I eat breakfast first: tea and brown bread, and sometimes a fresh fruit juice like orange or grapefruit. I write notes on the previous day in my notebook, then I shower.
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!
When I started in fashion, for the first 10 years, I said to myself every day, 'I'm going to quit tomorrow.'
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.
It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.
I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.
I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.
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.
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.
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.
Women should look at themselves and decide for themselves what color or length they should wear.
I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.
A dress will never make a woman sexy, fatale, magnificent, mysterious. It's a way of walking, of standing, or existing, the way you give your hand or your regard. That's what makes the dress.
To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.
We are working women. Also, we have the problem of children, of men, to take care of our houses, so many things. I try to explain that in my clothes. They are clothes for everyday life. That is the real life of woman.
I want women to learn to find themselves.
I hate wasting time getting dressed. I like to put something on and just think, 'Yes. That's it.'
I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again.
I was a tomboy, always fairly eccentric, and convinced I'd grow up to be an actress.
Wherever I go, I buy shoes.
What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes.
You can have a conversation with your eyes.
It's not true that clothes look better on skinny girls; what counts is the attitude.