Word: rykiel
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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Weren't the see-throughs enough? Now Sonia Rykiel wants us to let it all hang out. Outrageous...
...Rykiel, Kenzo, et al. design clothing that makes women appear as if they doubt their sexual identity and must bare their breasts to prove to the world that they are women. Either this or it is once again apparent that the designers do not like women and do whatever is necessary to make them look garish and foolish...
...Rykiel, "my mother always used to tell me, 'Keep your knees together like a lady!' She was always saying, 'Don't do this or that!' " Sonia, who today is a top Parisian designer of ready-to-wear fashion, no longer has to worry about Maman's comments. But in the French fashion industry's showings of spring clothes last week, some of her new numbers did not seem calculated to endear her to too many other women ?though they should cause countless male eyes to go into orbit and may well tie up traffic wherever?or if ?they...
Though her topless tricots were the sensation of the show, most of Rykiel's line did not rely on shock value but on the fact that her clothes were imaginative, brilliantly colored and practical. She is the most womanly of designers, who recognizes that "every woman must create her own ambience; it is not I or Yves St. Laurent but the woman who has to create herself and be a unique person." She adds: "I make my clothes for real, living women of our times?not movie stars ?who have to be with children...
...event, red-haired Rykiel, long regarded by fellow designers as one of the most inventive and attainable of dressmakers (her outfits sell for around $500), may with this collection be on her way to international recognition as a philosopher of clothes who is both liberated and intensely feminine...