Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.

I like to be useful to people.

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.

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.

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

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.

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