Quotes By Miuccia Prada

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

I like the irony in my work.

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.

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.

Every day I'm thinking about change.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely.

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.

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

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

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

I just hate talking about myself.

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.