Best 80 quotes of Miuccia Prada on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

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.

Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.

Daring to wear something different takes effort.

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.

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

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

Fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes?

Fashion is an instant language.

Fashion is instant language.

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

Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.

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 always have this idea to create and display activities somewhere else around the world, but in fact it's been very difficult since the start, as you have to find the right place that can represent, or could be as significant as, your ideals. It rarely happens.

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

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

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

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

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.

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.

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

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

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.

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

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.

I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.

I'm not interested in how people dress.

I'm not interested in types. I'm interested in archetypes.

In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

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

I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.

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.

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

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

It's what I say all the time to my girls in the office here: The more they dress for sex, the less they will have love or sex.

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 confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don't like is to get bored.

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

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 that clothes are an excuse for living in the world.

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

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?

My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

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