SONIA RYKIEL 1998 15 Years Ago Wow! Paris Fashion Week by Fashion Channel

Fashion Designer Sonia Rykiel was born in 1930. At the age of 17, she was employed to dress the window displays in a Parisian textile store.
Sonia was married to the owner of a boutique which sold elegant clothing, but in 1962 she just couldn't find any soft sweaters to wear when she was pregnant. So she used a supplier to her husband from Venice, to design her own. The sweater went back 7 times for alterations before she was satisfied with it. This first creation was called the Poorboy Sweater, and she started selling it from her husbands label "Laura. It made the cover of Elle fashion magazine, and brought her fame. She later became the first designer to put seams on the outside of a garment, and to print words on her sweaters.
In 1968, she opened her first boutique. Rykiel has written many books, including an A to Z of fashion, and a collection of children's stories.
In 1980 she was voted one of the world's 1