Sonia Rykiel

Rykiel Enfant is Sonia Rykiel’s childrenswear line, launched by Nathalie Rykiel in 1983. It reinterprets the brand’s signature stripes, exposed-seam knitwear, and heart motifs for children’s clothing. In recent years, following a change in brand ownership, the development and distribution of childrenswear licenses have been transferred to Children Worldwide Fashion (CWF), and a global relaunch is underway. The line has a clearly distinct target audience from the main womenswear line.

Sonia by Sonia Rykiel was a secondary/diffusion line developed by Sonia Rykiel. It launched in 1989 as “Inscription Rykiel” and was renamed in 1999. While inheriting design codes from the main collection, such as knitwear and stripes, it offered more everyday silhouettes and graphic-oriented items through standalone shops and a separate collection, establishing points of contact with customers distinct from those of the main line. The line was closed in 2016 as part of a business restructuring, after which the focus shifted primarily to the main line amid a reorganization of the brand structure.

Rykiel Homme was Sonia Rykiel’s menswear line, launched around 1990, and presented collections that adapted the brand’s knitwear and layering expressions for men. The menswear business accounted for a small share of sales and faced profitability challenges, so presentations of the men’s collections were suspended and discontinued between 2008 and 2009. It was a gender-specific sub-line alongside the brand’s other lines (womenswear and childrenswear).

Modern Vintage (Modern Vintage / Sonia Rykiel) was a line/project launched around 2000 with the aim of reworking the archive. It served to present the brand’s history by selectively reissuing and reconstructing past signature pieces. By reintroducing classics and archive pieces, it established an archive-oriented position distinct from the main line, and was operated through measures such as trademark registration and limited reissues.