Miuccia Prada quotes

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

#Believe #Making Money

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

#Style #Trying #Looks

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Firsts #Different #Wanted

Daring to wear something different takes effort.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Effort #Different #Daring

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

#Want #World #Embrace

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

#Fashion #World #Today

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Want #Messages #Sophisticated

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

#Kind #Preference #Prada

I don't believe in people who think that clothes are not important.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Fashion #Believe #Thinking

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

#Fashion #Tears #Want

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

#Taste

I like the irony in my work.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Irony

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Ideas #Interesting #Ugly

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

#Strong Women #Stronger #Trying

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

#Art #Reality #Interest

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing,
-- Miuccia Prada

#Done #Ugly

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Beautiful #Intelligent #Clothes

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Ideas #Nostalgia

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

#Nostalgia #Complicated #Subjects

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

#Fashion #Thinking #People

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

#Hard Work #Way #Depth

Fashion is instant language.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Fashion #Language #Instant

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Fashion #Thinking #Design

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Positive #Beautiful #Hard Work

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

#Fashion #Ideas #Aesthetics

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Fashion #Feminist #Done

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#People #Answers #Study

I'm not interested in types. I'm interested in archetypes.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Type #Not Interested #Archetype

Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Ugly #Attractive #Exciting

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Thinking #Ideas #Creative

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

#Kids #Class #Wings

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Stupid #Shoes #Too Much

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

#Eye #Process #Learning Process

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Political #Trying #Important

This is an example of hypocrisy
-- Miuccia Prada

#Hypocrisy #Example

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

#Kids #Night #Week

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

#Art #People #Alive

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Beautiful #Fashion #Ideas

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

#Sexy #Hate #I Hate

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?
-- Miuccia Prada

#Light #Shopping #Bored

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

#Muse #Not Interested

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

#Dream #Clothes #Style

Maybe nothing is art”, maybe everything is or could be art. To that, no doubt she would have responded like she did in the installation: “The term [artist] 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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Fashion #Art #Doubt

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

#Fashion #Important #Headings

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

#Thinking #Process #Horrible

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Fashion #Thinking #Vanity

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Fashion #Intellectual #Answers

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Inspirational #Believe #Long

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

#Hate #Ideas #Age

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Trying #Different #Introducing

Every day I'm thinking about change.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Thinking

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

#Luxury #People #Quirky

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

#Children #Husband #Space

I had no fun. My family was too serious.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Fun #Serious #My Family

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

#Believe #Thinking #Care

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

#People #World #Selling

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

#Fashion #Clothes #Love Fashion

I do what I think is right.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Thinking

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

#Men #Clothes #Trying

I'm not interested in how people dress.
-- Miuccia Prada

#People #Dresses #Not Interested

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

#Strong #Men #Strong Man

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

#Lace #Obsession

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity,
-- Miuccia Prada

#Powerful #Trying #Losing

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.
-- Miuccia Prada

#New York #Passion #Thinking

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

#Strong #Way #Feminine

I just hate talking about myself.
-- Miuccia Prada

#Hate #Talking