It was a big party, in 2008 – then celebrated designer Sonia Rykiel that the 40th anniversary of her eponymous fashion brand and that evening revealed what she and her label are : cheerful, gentle elegance, vitality. The 500 guests were mixed, including precious stripper Dita Von Teese, Rykiel fellow designers Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier and Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, the glamorous festival celebrated in the park of St. Cloud at the gates of Paris.
and she showed here its fashion – that for which and with which she became famous: knit. Portable, but always elegant and special. Clear that their colleagues this evening assumptions in a fashionable tribute this thread: 30 designers, including Giorgio Armani, Vivienne Westwood and Karl Lagerfeld, had each designed to honor Rykiel a dress. And these clothes were funny, exciting, ironic inspirational. How Rykiel itself.
Sonia Rykiel died of complications from Parkinson
On Thursday now reported their family that Rykiel died from the effects of Parkinson’s disease at the age of 86 years. She leaves behind a daughter who has three children, and her husband Simon Berstein.
Their daughter Natalie is still conducting in 1968 founded company operates, to which the Chinese investment firm Fung Brands in 2008 acquired 80 percent of the capital. The company is making millions in sales and has sales outlets in dozens of countries.
remain in the memory of Sonia Rykiel, of course, the knit dresses. When they are looking for maternity wear has not been able to find for himself in 1968, founded the fashion autodidact her own label in Paris Saint Germain intellectuals district. Your confident, feminine and French-flirtatious designs they made fast the star.
They also created a “fashion of protest”
But she could still more, has long been considered one of the most prominent figures of the Paris fashion scene. “It was a fashion of protest”, the designer recalled in the 90s at its beginnings. As a young woman she already freed the fashion of the dictatorship of bourgeois constraints. They sorted the shoulder Wadding of, returned seams outwards, let skirts without delay and designed the first jogging suits from cotton velor
The fashion designer was even like black -. Also because there is a so charming contrast to her red hair showed. Even for this fall and winter designed Rykiel cheerful colorful cosmetics: Sonia Rykiel x Lancôme was the last current collection of cosmetics manufacturer in cooperation with the designer
The “second. Coco Chanel “have countless artists dedicated their works. Best known are the portraits of Andy Warhol (the red hair against red background). Even Karl Lagerfeld and photographer as Sara Moon and Helmut Newton immortalized.
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