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.

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

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.

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

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

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.

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.