The Hobby Of French Knitting Queen Sonia (Picture)

Introduction: Recently, French design master Sonia Rykiel has been widely rumored in the fashion circle She is terminally ill. Recalling the scene of watching idols closely after a fashion show in Sonia Rykiel one year, the audience was full of pomp and noise. Only she calmly sat in the audience and looked at it with dignity. She seemed to be the standard demeanor of a powerful woman in Paris. It was inconceivable that she had created the ultimate feminization The French knitting queen, whose logo style is interwoven with Parisian style and modern sense, may have a dim vision one day.

 

Saint Germain Street is the block where Sonia Rykiel lives, and Huashen Cafe is her favorite leisure place

 

If you don't walk around Saint Germain Avenue, the birthplace of Sonia Rykiel brand on the left bank of Paris, you may not really understand the power of this knitting queen in Paris. She is really a heavyweight figure that few people in the fashion industry can match. Catherine Houard Gallery, which is located near her store, also just started to hold Sonia's solo exhibition at the beginning of this month. Sonia, who has been showing her vision as a modern free woman in fashion for 40 years, will open her inner world and show more than 200 design sketches, fashion paintings, personal notebooks and message notes drawn by her own hands for the first time, All will be sold publicly.

　　
Sonia, a housewife, has never been trained in fashion design. There is no sign of fashion learning in her childhood background. She is only interested in painting since childhood. She likes to daub all the places she can find notebook, hotel stationery, etc., and then give them to everyone. Fashion design is a hobby she developed as an adult. She likes to design clothes as a game. Later, she developed this hobby into a lifelong career. In 1968, when France was in turmoil, she started her own fashion legend, opened her first boutique fashion shop on the left bank of Paris, and gradually expanded women's clothing, men's clothing Knitwear, children's wear, leather accessories, makeup, skin care products, perfume and other kinds of stores, but painting has become her hobby. The list of artists Sonia likes includes Giacometti, Victor Hugo, Picasso, Franco Portro, George Blake, Chaim Sudin, Matisse, Dali and others. People can see the impact of these artists on Sonia's painting style in this exhibition The use of smooth and romantic colors and lines also coincides with Sonia Rykiel's ready to wear series.

　　
However, Sonia, who is intelligent and versatile, has more than these hobbies. She also likes home design. Her talent in writing also makes her influential in the social and cultural circles of France. It is not just a playbook or two. What is surprising is that her writing subjects tend to be beautiful and erotic, and she likes to integrate her personal fashion ideas. As for why this respected knitting queen in the fashion industry has developed many "hobbies" beyond her busy clothing design life, Perhaps we can see one or two of the words of Tom Ford, a younger generation who also developed a film hobby from the clothing industry before - he said that the fashion industry has brought him the emptiness behind the material abundance, so he should obtain the meaning of life from other ways.