Sonia Rykiel

Sonia Rykiel is a French fashion designer born in 1930. Rykiel entered the fashion world originally as a window dresser, then married the owner of an elegant women's fashion boutique, Sam Rykiel. During her first pregnancy, Sonia Rykiel discovered she could find no soft, comfortable maternity sweaters that suited her style. She used a Venice-based supplier to her husband's store to design her own creations. She began selling her pieces in Laura, her husband's boutique, and it is her sweaters and knitwear which would eventually be her key to fame and fortune in the fashion world. The pullover s