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.
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.
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.
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.
It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.
I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.
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 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.
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.
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved 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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.
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.
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.
The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.
I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.
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.
