{"id":2039507,"date":"2016-08-25T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T09:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2016\/08\/25\/fashion-designer-sonia-rykiel-dies-aged-86\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:28:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:28:50","slug":"fashion-designer-sonia-rykiel-dies-aged-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2016\/08\/25\/fashion-designer-sonia-rykiel-dies-aged-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion designer Sonia Rykiel dies aged 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"chapo title_gamma\"><em>Fashion designer Sonia Rykiel has died at the age of 86. She had been suffering from Parkinson&#8217;s disease. <\/em><\/h5>\n<h5>In 1948, she worked as a window dresser at the <i>Grande Maison de Blanc<\/i>. In 1954, she married Sam Rykiel, owner of <i>Laura<\/i>, a clothing boutique in the <sup>14th<\/sup> arrondissement of Paris. It was here, at 104 avenue du G\u00e9n\u00e9ral Leclerc, that she designed her first sweaters. She had two children with him (Nathalie in 1955 and Jean-Philippe in 1961).   <\/h5>\n<h5>In 1960, one of her sweaters made the cover of <i>Elle<\/i> magazine. Audrey Hepburn, visiting <i>Laura&#8217;<\/i>s boutique, bought 14 Sonia Rykiel sweaters (the poor boy sweater) in every color. Sam Rykiel helped her set up Sonia Rykiel C.D.M. in 1965 and, despite their divorce, they founded the <i>Sonia Rykiel<\/i> label in May 1968, opening her first boutique at 6, rue de Grenelle, on the Left Bank in Paris.  <\/h5>\n<h5>In 1970, the American magazine <i>Women&#8217;s Wear Daily<\/i> named her the &#8220;Queen of Knitwear in the World&#8221;, and she quickly invented purl seams, &#8220;no hem&#8221; and &#8220;no lining&#8221; in the name of a new fashion philosophy: &#8220;la d\u00e9mode&#8221;. She created a style with unmistakable elements, whose key words were black, stripes, lace, rhinestones, knitwear and messages written on sweaters. <\/h5>\n<h5>Her creations are associated with the image of a Parisian woman who is &#8220;feminine, free, sensual and independent&#8221;. As an actress, she inspired the title character and played herself in a Robert Altman film. She also designed the interiors of the H\u00f4tel de Crillon in 1972 and the Lutetia in 1985.  <\/h5>\n<h5>She has known she had Parkinson&#8217;s disease since the late 1990s. She first publicly addressed the subject in 2012 in a book entitled <i>N&#8217;oubliez pas que je joue<\/i>, written in collaboration with journalist Judith Perrignon. <\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion designer Sonia Rykiel has died at the age of 86. She had been suffering from Parkinson&#8217;s disease. In 1948, she worked as a window dresser at the Grande Maison&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":939332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thefashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}