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Throughout the collections, Sonia Rykiel has been able to turn fashion upside down and create clothes that match with a real lifestyle. Shaking up institutions, not paying attention to codes and established rules, she has always took women’s part. This perhaps explains the modernity, the longevity, the influence, the posterity of her vision and its unique journey.
- New York Fashion Group International award
- National Order of the Legion of Honor, then Commander
- Insignia of Commander of Arts and Letters
- Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit.
- Sonia Rykiel Alley in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, the only street named after a fashion designer in Paris.
- stripes
- no hem
- velvet
- lace
- « trompe l'œil»
- black
- reverse seams
- colors
- words
- intarsia
- strass
- studs
- masculine-feminine
- true-false
- layering
- knit
- sweater

Rykielism
Rykielism is a sociological and stylistic movement founded in 1968 by Sonia Rykiel in Saint-Germain-des-Près, a neighborhood in Paris’ Left Bank. Rykielism extols the libération of women through sensuality, intelligence and irreverence.
Rykielism is about having the freedom to be oneself. It’s a way of life that’s chic and offbeat.
- demode
- freedom
- avant-garde
- bold
- provocation
- democratization
- joy of living
- pleasure
- seduction
- Sensuality
- game / double-dealing
- game
- trust
- emancipation
- eccentricity
- humour
- chic
- offset
- non-compliance
- visionnarism
- passion
- bewitchment
- mischief
I wanted to destroy the laws, the diktats.
I wanted to duplicate, overflow, unmeasure fashion.
I wanted to unfold it, unroll it.
When I live the collection,
I live multiplied.
I am one but I am everywhere,
in the colors, under the shapes, into the pockets.
I returned the clothes;
I haven't finished them;
I made holes, overlays;
I decided that garment is freedom.










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