French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, who was lovingly called the Queen of Knitwear, died on Thursday at the age of 86 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease, her daughter said.
"My mother died at 5am this morning at her home in Paris," Nathalie Rykiel was quoted as telling the AFP news agency.
The pioneering Rykiel was a fixture in the industry for half a century, and has been credited with typifying a new generation of designers who launched their own labels outside the established system of haute couture.
She launched her first boutique in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris in 1968, buoyed by the Swinging Sixties craze in London.
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