Miuccia Prada Quotes

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

I’ve always been shy.

The moment you start being in love with what you’re doing, and thinking it’s beautiful or rich, then you’re in danger.

Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.

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.

You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.

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

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

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

I do what I think is right.

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

Daring to wear something different takes effort.

We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.

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

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

I once tried to make lace – which has been a great obsession of women – unsexy. And I achieved it.

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

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

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

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

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

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

Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.

I just hate talking about myself.

I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don’t love fashion, but I love clothes completely.

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.

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

I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.

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.

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.

With women, the more unhappy they are, the more undressed they are.

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?

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

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

I like the irony in my work.

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.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It’s alive.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichés of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

It’s horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn’t bring them the happiness they think it will.

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.

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