Quotes By Miuccia Prada

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.

I just hate talking about myself.

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.

Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

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

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

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.

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.

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

I've always been shy.

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

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

My parents were truly severe.

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

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.

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.

Daring to wear something different takes effort.

I'm not interested in how people dress.

Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.

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

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

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

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

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.

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

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

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