Sonia Rykiel: The Domino Revival

Ten years ago, Julie de Libran dreamt of the Domino. A bag so generous, effortless and contemporary: the Rykiel style in its purest form. But ten years ago stocks ran dry and the bag remained forever out of her reach.

Following her appointment as artistic director at Rykiel, it was without hesitation that she dressed the silhouettes of her first show for Spring-Summer 2015, with the Maison's iconic Domino bag.

Lifting the long-desired hobo out of the archives, Julie de Libran tweaked its proportions without compromising its essentially supple and functional design. Who cares if this season's bags tend towards a statuesque and serious rigidity? Ever irrelevant and out-of-step, the Sonia Rykiel Spring-Summer 2015 wardrobe transposes the Domino into all registers and materials: leather, eyelet and rhinestone-studded leather, fringed leather, python and crocodile skins or sequin-embroidered...