Quotes By Miuccia Prada

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.

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

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

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.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

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

When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.

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

I like the irony in my work.

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.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

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

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 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.

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

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 moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.

Every day I'm thinking about change.

I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.

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