Quotes By Miuccia Prada

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

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

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 believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.

I've always been shy.

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

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

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.

My parents were truly severe.

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

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.

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.

I'm not interested in how people dress.

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

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.