Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show, I keep questioning myself and wondering if I did the right thing.

You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.

I am still taking care of the creation of the collection alongside my staff, and my daughter Nathalie Rykiel, is the artistic director of Sonia Rykiel, who takes care of a lot of things. We are very alike and also very close.

The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed.

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.