Miuccia Prada Quotes

Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.

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

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

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

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.

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

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

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.

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.

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

The younger generations have their own ideas, they have their own projects. When they talk, I am always surprised how much more lucid and cultivated they are and how they see things in a way that is much more complex than, for example, other generations did.

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

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes?

Fashion is an instant language.

The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.

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

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

I'm not interested in how people dress.

Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

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

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

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.

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

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

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

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.

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

It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.

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

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

Daring to wear something different takes effort.

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.

I do what I think is right.