Sonia Rykiel’s Quirky Lexicon of Style

This free-spirited glossary, illustrated by previously unpublished sketches, is a witty, insightful, and highly personal self-portrait of one of the world’s leading fashion icons. Ordinary? That’s not a word in Sonia Rykiel’s vocabulary. Presented as a jumbled dictionary of terms, this book reflects Rykiel’s maverick, sensual, and impertinent personality and style. From her definitions of everything from dresses to chocolate, through love, her signature stripes, and scandal, she invites us inside her vividly imaginative stratosphere in order to understand her unique vision of the world and of fashion. Poetry, narrative, and anecdote combine, along with ninety-one of Rykiel’s previously unpublished drawings, to produce a beautiful book that is a bold expression of the designer’s creative universe.