Sonia Rykiel majesty in the Decorative Arts

A long red hair with fringe, a thin black silhouette, Sonia Rykiel, a rare female figure in the microcosm of fashion which celebrated with great fanfare 40 years of its creation last summer, has been a stunning retrospective visible until 19 April 2009 Decorative Arts in Paris. Alternately dubbed "queen of knitting", the "apparent seams", the designer, made its first real step in the mode in 1962, well before the opening of its first boutique ready-to-wear, the creation of its own brand. Sonia Rykiel, now 78 years, in fact dreamed of becoming a writer. That is what the installation of Decorative Arts has a constantly again. "I like exaggeration, because it is still something," she says, citing Cocteau. A quotation is timely for those who "never satisfied with his work, sees the process of creation as a ball bearing." "I take and I resume my dress", details she said. And it is precisely because qu'enfant, it showed a "great tenderness for writing" has become "a writer of fashion", because "writing is almost pull the words from the heart" . The exhibition named "Sonia Rykiel Exhibition" revisits a fierce young woman, first student in architecture, and demonstrating its desire to demonstrate the banality of the relationship between a dress and architecture structured, thanks to the perfection of the number of 'Or, a meeting point she says, "between accuracy and madness". A range of models represents the research and flamboyant nervous. The windows, where they are exposed to are addressed, such "Strass and glitter", "a wardrobe of Sir", "Salopettes magnificent", "hands in pockets or his famous" Poor Boy Sweater. " Rykiel also excels in its Thursday materials, wool, silk, cotton or print it united colors of the five basic tones that correspond to it, the five vowels of the alphabet. His art is always to construct, deconstruct, unravel, retricoter. In short, a "method of fitting jackets that can become blankets and blankets to make jackets." On the sidelines of the exhibition are many cultural and educational workshops. Some are designed for children as "A backward place" who wants to educate black kids, scratch, the size and the decline on a book to read in all directions. Far from the drawings that first signed in 1962, dresses for mothers and adjusted knits, said she is the queen, highlighting the feminine curves. Without doubt the highlight of this "Exhibition" (exhibition in English Ed), the long interview she gave to Andy Warhol in 1981 for "Warhol's TV" featuring the iconic picture that she realized in 1985, putting more value than ever in his aquiline profile and flamboyant hair.