If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroyingโor at least deconstructingโconventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichรฉs of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
Miuccia PradaI once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.
Miuccia PradaSex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men and women.
Miuccia PradaIโve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. Itโs a term that does not relate to modern times. And itโs too confining. What I love about fashion is its accessibility and its democracy. Everyone wears it, and everyone relates to it.
Miuccia Prada