I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted and myself. Looking back on those years for WWD in 2008, Rykiel said, “Since I didn’t know anything, I did everything I wanted. In 1969, she opened an in-store shop at Galeries Lafayette, and her clothes were picked up by Bloomingdale’s and Henri Bendel in New York. Success came quickly, and her business grew. The neighborhood, rocked by student protests at the time, was right for a designer like her - although she had to close her shop the day after she first opened it because of unrest in the streets. Rykiel, who had her daughter Nathalie in 1956 and her son Jean-Philippe in 1961, divorced her husband in 1968 and opened her first self-named shop in May of that year on the Rue de Grenelle in the heart of the arty Saint-Germain-des-Prés area. Her shrunken 1962 “poor-boy” sweater, with its fine ribbing, which she prevailed upon the Laura knitters in Italy to make, became a landmark design of the early Sixties.Ī Laura boutique opened in Galeries Lafayette in 1964. Then WWD elected me the Queen of Knitwear.” When she became pregnant, “I wanted a maternity dress, but I couldn’t find anything I liked.
“My husband had a boutique called Laura.” “I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn’t work,” she said. Julie de Libran, an alum of Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu, is the current creative director.įamous for her triangle of red hair and saucy personality, Rykiel won fans with her feminine, witty sweaters, often striped, sequined or imprinted with words - though she never learned to knit herself.īorn in the Paris suburb of Neuilly, the eldest of five daughters of a Russian mother and a Romanian father, Rykiel, nee Flis, never aspired to be a designer.
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Rykiel had long since passed the design reins to a series of young designers.
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