Sonia Rykiel - "Japanese before the Japanese"

[Mulboyne]

From an article in the Guardian on French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel:

"[This retrospective] is for a woman who was a pioneer of conceptual clothing," Olivier Saillard, curator of the exhibition, told Guardian.co.uk. "She did conceptualism before the conceptualists, Japanese before the Japanese, minimalism before the minimalists. So in a way she smoothed the way for all movements in contemporary fashion."