Miuccia Prada Quotes

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

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.

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

We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.

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

Daring to wear something different takes effort.

You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

Fashion is instant language.

Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.

I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern times. And it’s too confining. What I love about fashion is its accessibility and its democracy. Everyone wears it, and everyone relates to it.

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.

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 I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichés of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.

We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.

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

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

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.

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

I love uniforms because they allow you to hide. No one knows what you are thinking, so it's a very appropriate and correct way to be yourself.

When I talk with people, I don't even see what they are wearing . . . No, I recognize it if it's something particularly nice and interesting. I see the exception.

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

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. 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 don't believe in people who think that clothes are not important.

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.

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

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

Because of the Prada name, I can do things that people normally would not care about in the culture. I can have an exhibit by some forgotten artist who I love, and because it's Prada, people will come see it.

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.

Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.

The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.

People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is study! You have to learn.

I think more and more, if you live in the current world - and live internationally - it's all a mix of interests, and the same people who are interested in fashion are also interested in movies, art, and culture.

Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.

I like the irony in my work.

Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don't think it's something tricky - it's being human. And everybody is seduced by something different.

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.

With women, the more unhappy they are, the more undressed they are.

Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.

I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.

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