Fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes?

I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern times. And it’s too confining. What I love about fashion is its accessibility and its democracy. Everyone wears it, and everyone relates to it.

Every day I'm thinking about change.

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.

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.

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.