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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.