The overwhelming majority of the population of developed countries watches the world of high fashion through the TV screen. This feature does not prevent connoisseurs from studying, experiencing and evaluating what they see. Sonya Rykiel has shaped the tastes and preferences of a wide audience for several decades.
Starting conditions
Emigration flows carry people to different parts of the world. Someone these streams nailed to a safe bank, and someone - to a miserable vegetation in a foreign land. The future designer of women's clothing Sonia Rykiel was born on May 25, 1930 in a family of immigrants from Russia. At that time, the parents lived in one of the poor suburbs of Paris. Father worked as a watchmaker, mother was engaged in housekeeping. From an early age, the child learned about need and a half-starved existence. The girl knew well how people live in the slums and did not want to share their fate.
The future fashion designer started drawing early. The adults did not pay special attention to this hobby and therefore did not interfere with the development of the girl's fantasy. After graduating from high school, Sonya found herself a job as a window designer in a small knitwear store. As often happens, after a while, the owner of the outlet and the designer got married. Sonya was an attractive girl, and there is nothing extraordinary in this situation. The husband and wife continued to engage in the already modest joint business.
Jersey queen
In 1962, in the last months of her pregnancy, Sonya modeled and knitted several sweaters and dresses. Moreover, she began to go out in these clothes for walks. At first, her antics were assessed as a mild form of schizophrenia. However, after a while, attitudes and assessments changed markedly. In the biography of Sonya Rykiel, it is noted that her models caught the eye of stylists from a popular magazine that specialized in publications on fashion trends. The rising star's creativity was appreciated condescendingly, but benevolently.
Fashion designer Sonia Rykiel went to great lengths to make black attractive to women. She managed to win, albeit not a final, but a convincing victory. In the late 60s, the famous lover of black began to be called the queen of knitwear. However, she continued to generate ideas and offer them to the target audience. Soon, sweaters and dresses with bright inscriptions and stickers appeared on the women's clothing market.
Essays on personal life
Sonya Rykiel's professional career as a fashion designer and stylist has developed brilliantly. What can not be said about personal life. Married to her husband, the owner of a textile shop, she had two children. The eldest daughter, clever and beautiful, helped her mother in business. With her youngest son, Sonya, as they say, sipped grief. The fact is that as a result of a birth injury, he was born blind. This mother's cross had to be carried through her whole life.
Marriage also hasn't stood the test of time. Soon after the birth of her son, Sonya divorced her husband and directed all her strength and love to the development of her fashion house. In business, she has achieved decent results. Sonia Rykiel passed away in August 2016.
