Miuccia Prada Quotes

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

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

Every day I'm thinking about change.

This is an example of hypocrisy

I don't want to say temporary, because temporary is such a trendy word.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Fashion is an instant language.

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

Men are always much more dignified than most women.

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

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

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

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

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

I would say that clothes are an excuse for living in the world.

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.

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

I'm not interested in how people dress.

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

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

To have to be sexy? That I hate. To be outrageously sexy? That I love.

Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

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?

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

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

I just hate talking about myself.

The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.

I like to be useful to people.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

I do what I think is right.

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.

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.