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

[Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it.

I married a man who was in fashion. I began to work when my daughter Nathalie was about eight or 10 years old. Then one day I began to make a sweater, and eventually the sweater was on the front page of Elle magazine. And the day after I was the queen of knit in America.

I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!

My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why I have kept a real relation with the Art world, by putting books from the beginning in my shops' windows.

I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that.

I have the feeling I've always done what I wanted throughout my life.