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

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

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!

My breakfast is very important.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

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

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.