



LA MAISON
1968
The Sonia Rykiel designer sweaters for women are sold in the Laura boutique in Paris. The French singer Francoise Hardy and Audrey Hepburn, on a world tour for her movie, totally fall for this sweater for women.






































































Since the 1970s, Sonia Rykiel (1930-2016) has embodied an emancipated and iconoclastic woman. She will always be known as one of the main figures of Parisian ready-to-wear.
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 taken 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.
- 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.










RYKIELISME
Rykielism is a sociological and stylistic movement founded in 1968 by Sonia Rykiel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 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.





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I wanted to destroy the laws, the diktats. I wanted to duplicate, overflow, unmeasure fashion. I wanted to unfold it, unroll it.
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When I live the collection, I live multiplied. I am one but I am everywhere, in the colors, under the shapes, into the pockets.
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I returned the clothes; I haven't finished them; I made holes, overlays; I decided that garment is freedom.
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