“Artifice is art.” — Sonia Rykiel Quote

“Artifice is art.”

“My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.”

“When a woman confuses what she is with what she wears, then something is wrong inside.”

“You know how someone - something - surprises you. You wake up a little bit. That's done through Chinese cuisine - for example, through dishes of artifice. That's a whole sub-tradition in Chinese cuisine. To create a dish that comes to the table looking like one thing but actually is something else.”

“I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.”