What a sad and totally deluded designer (Julie de Libran)
came up with this pile of crap and believed it is an ode to the eponymous designer. Sonia was
the epitome of a sort of minimalism in her
day. Yes she had her fair share of craziness and outlandish but at the
core of the business was knits… glorious knits which might be considered precursors
to today’s track pants and hoodies /sweatshirts.
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Rykiel women were addicted to the one color ensemble dressing
as well as the stripes and lightheartedness of her collections. The models, the
clothes, the colors, the music, the staging, they all spoke to a time and a client
who was loyal to the core if not in some ways cultishly addicted to the collections.
Sonia was a visionary. The clothes were streamlined, clean, soft, timeless, and
most times the epitome of subtle.
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After the knits there was of course “Hilda” which as a grouping of acetate crepe that was wildly overpriced
but was a requirement to be part of your buy each season. Hilda was usually rhinestone studded and was meant to be a category
extension even though Sonia was the knit queen.
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With all that said in what freakin universe do these clothes
speak to Sonia Rykiel, the brand and the
designer. Natalie Rykiel should be ashamed of herself to allow such trash to be
shown with her mother’s name/label on it.
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PS ... the uneducated reviewer from one supposedly stellar fashion site really needs to know the history of a
brand before they regurgitate press release crap …. This was more than just a stretch
of the imagination to see the DNA of the original brand!
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