Miuccia Prada Quotes

I think more and more, if you live in the current world - and live internationally - it's all a mix of interests, and the same people who are interested in fashion are also interested in movies, art, and culture.

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.

My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific.

I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.

Men are always much more dignified than most women.

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity,

Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

I'm not interested in types. I'm interested in archetypes.

I like the irony in my work.

I've always been shy.

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties.

Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

Daring to wear something different takes effort.

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men and women.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

I like to be useful to people.

I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.

I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is study! You have to learn.

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing,

I do what I think is right.

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just
beauty by itself is too easy.

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.

My parents were truly severe.

The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.

Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.

My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.

Every day I'm thinking about change.

When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.

I don't believe in people who think that clothes are not important.

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.

Because of the Prada name, I can do things that people normally would not care about in the culture. I can have an exhibit by some forgotten artist who I love, and because it's Prada, people will come see it.

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

I would say that clothes are an excuse for living in the world.

This is an example of hypocrisy

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.