French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel has died aged 86 in the early hours of Thursday morning at her home in Paris. The pioneer of Parisian womenswear had been suffering from Parkinson's, a progressive ...

With flaming red hair and a perenially smudged smoky eye, Sonia Rykiel was a legend in French fashion. The designer died at the age of 86 yesterday in her Paris home, and is remembered today for her ...

Sonia Rykiel, a beloved French designer synonymous with striped sweaters and Left Bank insouciance, died Thursday in Paris after years living with Parkinson’s disease and osteoporosis. She was 86.

Sonia Rykiel, the pioneering French fashion designer, died today at age 86 in Paris. Rykiel had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for the past few years. With her shock of bright orange hair and ...

Artistic, independent, rebellious, Rykiel embodied the intellectual chic and feminism of Paris in the late 1960s. She wanted women to look both powerful and sexy. Above all, she wanted to give them ...

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Reporting from Paris — Sonia Rykiel was remembered at her funeral Thursday as a singular fashion personality whose free spirit and joie de vivre defined a particular brand of Parisian style. A sea of ...

On Saturday, Sonia Rykiel presented its spring/summer 2019 collection as part of Paris fashion week. The showcase coincided with the inauguration of a street named after the brand’s eponymous founder, ...

PARIS — Fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, dubbed the “queen of knitwear” and seen as a liberating force for women, has been laid to rest at Montparnasse Cemetery. Family members, fashion designers Albert ...

IT SEEMED QUITE NATURAL—fated even—when Julie de Libran accepted the job of artistic director of French label Sonia Rykiel last year. “[The brand] felt like part of me already,” said Ms. de Libran, 43 ...

PARIS — Sonia Rykiel, a French designer dubbed the "queen of knitwear" whose relaxed sweaters in berry-colored stripes and eye-popping motifs helped liberate women from stuffy suits, has died at 86.