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Article: Inside Paris Fashion--Sonia Rykiel.(French fashion designer)(Brief Article)(Interview)
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- Interview
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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INGRID SISCHY: Sonia?
SONIA RYKIEL: Oui. Bonjour Ingrid.
IS: Hello. Tell me about Paris and fashion.
SR: You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris. It's where you are the queen, or the king. For me, though, I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.
IS: Sonia, when you were very young did you want to be a fashion designer?
SR: Never--my only ambition was to have 10 children. I knew nothing about fashion, it was an accident. I married a man who was in fashion. I began to work when my daughter Nathalie was about eight or 10 years old. Then one ...