“Rykielism is about having the freedom to be oneself. It’s a way of life that’s chic and offbeat.”

Rykiel stripes have been moving us for ages and they struck back sadly at the end of this hot summer, when Sonia died at 86.

We loved “her flamboyance”, as Karl Lagerfeld declared.

She was free, wild, elegant and a true visionary.

Many attributes we still need nowadays, to catch the colors of the rainbow among the black stripes of life…