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 think more and more, if you live in the current world - and live internationally - it's all a mix of interests, and the same people who are interested in fashion are also interested in movies, art, and culture.

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

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

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.

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

I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.