Quotes By Miuccia Prada

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

I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.

My parents were truly severe.

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

Every day I'm thinking about change.

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.

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

I'm not interested in how people dress.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I like the irony in my work.

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

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

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

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

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

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.

In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties.