There was a reason that the Sonia Rykiel's style was defined as "garonne" or boyish. Her insistence on being a working mother and in creating sexually charged clothes that filled a fashion gap created by the invention of the contraceptive pill, meant that the designer was well ahead of her time.

Rykiel's big, bold moment coincided with the youth upheaval in 1968, when students took to the streets. The rioters might not have gone on to wear Sonia's hippy de luxe style of the Seventies, with its layered maxi skirts, signature striped sweaters, vividly coloured furs and cheeky berets, but there remained something defiant about the Rykiel look.

To the end, Sonia, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, never bowed to convention and never, ever toned down her bright red hair.Sonia Rykiel：女性解放者Sonia Rykiel：女性解放者