She died the same day as Friedrich Nietzsche, the 25 August, a coincidence? Certainly not for the intellectuals of Fashion. The French designer who revolutionized the face of fashion with her never-seen-before knitwear designs. whether cropped or long, tight or fluid, colorful or striped, the audacious pieces quickly became the house’s staple, seducing people like Audrey Hepburn, Sylvie Vartan and Françoise Hardy.
Sonia Rykiel was a muse chic but not bourgeois, a Parisien by essence, smoking a cigarette on the terrace of a chic Parisian café in Saint-Germain-des-Près. Sonia Rykiel incarnated liberation and individualism in female fashion, inspired by punk spirit of May 68. Continue reading