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

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

From the very beginning I've said to women not to follow the fashion rules blindly, and to adapt clothes to suit who they are, and not the contrary.

I am like the lover of Roland Barthes "who's always running in his head". I'm always searching, and "eating" everything from my life, in order to put it in my dresses!

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

As a young girl I was a real tomboy, only listening to myself. I carried on with this attitude even as a woman and when I first launched the Sonia Rykiel line, and said to women to remove their bras or when I designed sweaters with stitches inside out, everybody said to me that it was crazy and risky, but I ignored what they said and I did what I felt was right at the time.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.