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Sonia Rykiel
Sonia Rykiel
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Last copy!
Author: Patrick Mauries Foreword by: Grace Mirabella Publisher: Universe Publishing Series: Universe of Fashion Format: Hardcover # of Pages: 79 Pub. Date: 1998 ISBN-10: 0789302047 ISBN-13: 9780789302045
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About
the Book:
HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very
limited number of copies are still available.
Traces the French designer's rise to success in the world of
fashion and features photographs and sketches of some of her
creations.
Sonia Rykiel represents the liberated woman in every sense
of the word, both in her creations and her lifestyle. Known to
North Americans as "the Queen of Knits," this striking redhead
started her career in the most extraordinary fashion. Married to the
owner of a boutique that sold clothing somewhere between custom-made
and ready-to-wear, she never could find a sweater that she herself
wanted to wear. So she asked one of his suppliers in Venice to make
up a special wool sweater just for her – slightly cropped, very
fitted, in pale grey. The sweater went back for alterations seven
times – first it was too long, then too short, the armholes too big
– until finally Madame Rykiel was pleased – so was Elle magazine,
who used it on a cover, making Sonia Rykiel instantly famous.
In 1968, she opened her own boutique on the Left Bank's fashionable
rue de Grenelle, and soon designed sweaters for mass-market
mail-order catalogs. Encouraging women to adapt her clothes to their
individual lifestyles, she introduced such novel ideas as clothing to
be worn inside-out, seams being as important as surface. Sonia
Rykiel created her own perfume in 1978, launched a career as an
interior designer (whose most elegant creation was the decoration of
the luxurious Hotel Crillon on the place Vendome), and in 1980 was
elected one of the world's ten most elegant women.
What people say:
"These
four volumes continue the 'Universe of Fashion' series of 11 titles
published since 1996. Each volume in the series is devoted to a
notable fashion designer and follows a simple template: ten to 15
pages of biography, 50 pages or so of photographs illustrating the
designer's work, a career chronology, and photographic credits
accompanied by thumbnails of the larger photographs (a nice touch).
The volumes resemble miniature exhibit catalogs, providing quick
glimpses of the lives and work of people who have molded the fashion
establishment during the last few decades." —
Library Journal
About the Author:
Patrick Mauriees is a
Paris-based writer of many notable titles on fashion and design.
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