Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Miuccia Prada

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian designer Miuccia Prada.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Miuccia Prada

Miuccia Bianchi Prada is an Italian billionaire fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the head designer of Prada and the founder of its subsidiary Miu Miu. As of October 2021, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$4.8 billion. In June 2021, Bloomberg estimated her net worth to be $6.62 billion, ranked 464th in the world.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
Daring to wear something different takes effort.
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
The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.
I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.
I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.
Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.
I'm not interested in how people dress.
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?
I do what I think is right.
In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties.
Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.
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
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.
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.
Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.
If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.
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.
When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.
I had no fun. My family was too serious.
My parents were truly severe.
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.
For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading.
Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
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.
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.
I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.
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.
For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.
I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.
You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.
I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.
I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.
What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.
My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific.
Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days. — © Miuccia Prada
Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.
I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely.
I like the irony in my work.
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
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.
I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.
The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.
Every day I'm thinking about change.
I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.
I just hate talking about myself.
Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. — © Miuccia Prada
Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.
Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.
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.
You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.
We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.
Fashion is instant language.
You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.
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.
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.
You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.
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