Quotes By Miuccia Prada

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.

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

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

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.

I like the irony in my work.

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

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.

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

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

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.