It's important to know yourself well, in order to create your own style of fashion to suit your own body shape.

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

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

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.

I couldn't have opened a store without putting books with the clothes. I am still writing as I have always done, and have published my ninth book "L'envers à l'endroit" last year. I am currently working on a dictionary of my favourite words.

I think that the boy-woman is a very strong image and a lot of fascinating women are like that: Gala [Dalí].

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