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

Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.

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

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

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

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.

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