Quotes By Miuccia Prada

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.

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

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

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.

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 had no fun. My family was too serious.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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