With only one bag, you can change your outfit completely.
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.
I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.
Since I didn't know anything, I did everything I wanted.
Artifice is art.
I wanted women wearing my sweaters to give the impression they were naked. The aim wasn't to impose outfits but to stay as close as possible to women's bodies and their freedom of movement.
It's not true that clothes look better on skinny girls; what counts is the attitude.
The Rykiel woman? She doesn't have time to stop time. She's too busy running. In her hands she's carrying a tote, a baby, a book, a camera.
I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again.
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!
Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.
The key to my collections is sensuality.
You can have a conversation with your eyes.
I invented a sweater so small, so close to the body, that Women's Wear Daily nicknamed it 'The Poor Boy Sweater' and consecrated me queen of knitwear.
A woman and a dress, very often, fight against each other because they are not at the same place. Sometimes you see the woman moving the belt around. She is making the robe her own. She needs that. Otherwise, the dress doesn't exist.
For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game.
I don't know how to knit.
I don't read e-mails because I hate them.
To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.
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.
