Miuccia Prada Quotes

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much.

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

Men are always much more dignified than most women.

This is an example of hypocrisy

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading.

I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

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.

Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.

I like to be useful to people.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

I love uniforms because they allow you to hide. No one knows what you are thinking, so it's a very appropriate and correct way to be yourself.

I don't want to say temporary, because temporary is such a trendy word.

Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don't think it's something tricky - it's being human. And everybody is seduced by something different.

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

Fashion is instant language.

Every day I'm thinking about change.

When I talk with people, I don't even see what they are wearing . . . No, I recognize it if it's something particularly nice and interesting. I see the exception.

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is study! You have to learn.

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.

The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.

To have to be sexy? That I hate. To be outrageously sexy? That I love.

You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.

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

I always have this idea to create and display activities somewhere else around the world, but in fact it's been very difficult since the start, as you have to find the right place that can represent, or could be as significant as, your ideals. It rarely happens.

I just hate talking about myself.

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

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

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

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.

You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.

It's what I say all the time to my girls in the office here: The more they dress for sex, the less they will have love or sex.

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.

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

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.

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.