Miuccia Prada's Quotes

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

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

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

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 would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

I'm not interested in how people dress.

I've always been shy.

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

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

My parents were truly severe.

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

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.

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

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

Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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