Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don't like is to get bored.

Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

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.

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.

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.