I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.

I love to leave, to be ready-for, to be on the run! That's my boyish side, it's the pant's me! Pants which allow for the attitudes, gestures and movements of a man but that are still female in taste and free enough so that I can slip my hands inside!

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.

It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc.

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

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

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.