# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonia-rykiel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:46:49.973Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonia-rykiel"
name: "Sonia Rykiel"
slug: "sonia-rykiel"
description: "Sonia Rykiel was a French fashion designer and writer. She created the Poor Boy Sweater, which was featured on the cover of French Elle magazine. Her knitwear designs and new fashion techniques led her to be dubbed the \"Queen of Knits\". The Sonia Rykiel label was founded in 1968, upon the opening of her first store, making clothing, accessories, and fragrances. Rykiel was also a writer, and her first book was published in 1979. In 2012, Rykiel revealed that she was suffering from Parkinson's disease. She died from complications of the disease on 25 August 2016."
tagline: "French fashion designer (1930-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sonia_Rykiel_.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-05-25"
deathDate: "2016-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.45
  momentum:             1.710333263466778
  historical:           24.001132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "SONIARYKIEL"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0753302/"
    handle:    "nm0753302"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.soniarykiel.com/"
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    title: "ソニア・リキエル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "სონია რიკიელი"
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    title: "Sonia Rykiel"
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    title: "Sonia Rykiel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump