Goodbye Sonia Rykiel...

"My mother died tonight in Paris, at her house, at 5 am, as a result of Parkinson's disease," the disease that she had evoked in a book in 2012, "Do not forget that I'm fighting," said Nathalie Rykiel, who is also a woman of fashion industry. Rykiel died on August 22 at 86 years old after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. 


The inventor of the "démodé", born Sonia Flis in Paris on May 25, 1930, of a French father and a Romanian mother, started her career as an exhibitor of goods in 1948. She founded, in May 1968, the brand Sonia Rykiel.

She played her own role in the Robert Altman film "Ready to Wear", shot during the fashion week in Paris in Spring 1994.

The ‘Queen of knitwear’ is laid to rest at Paris’s Montparnasse Cemetery. RIP

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