Miuccia Prada
Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.Collection: Style
We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Being Yourself
Fashion is instant language.Collection: Fashion
You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.Collection: Important
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.Collection: Beautiful
You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.Collection: World
Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.Collection: Girl
I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Beautiful
I'm not interested in types. I'm interested in archetypes.Collection: Type
I don't believe in people who think that clothes are not important.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Fashion
It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.Collection: Strong
I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much.Collection: Fashion
To have to be sexy? That I hate. To be outrageously sexy? That I love.Collection: Sexy
Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.Collection: Ugly
I like to be useful to people.Collection: People
The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Thinking
I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.Collection: Keys
This is an example of hypocrisyCollection: Hypocrisy
The younger generations have their own ideas, they have their own projects. When they talk, I am always surprised how much more lucid and cultivated they are and how they see things in a way that is much more complex than, for example, other generations did.Collection: Younger Generation
I don't want to say temporary, because temporary is such a trendy word.Collection: Temporary
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.Collection: World
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?Collection: Fashion
I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.Collection: Girl
Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men and women.Collection: Sex
I would say that clothes are an excuse for living in the world.Collection: Clothes
Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.Collection: Clothes
When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.Collection: Interesting
I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Fashion
The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.Collection: People
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.Collection: Stupid
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.Collection: Real
If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing.Collection: Done
Fashion is an instant language.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Serious
I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don't like is to get bored.Collection: Bored
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.Collection: Political
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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Nice