Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Miuccia Prada - Page 2

Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.

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

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.

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.

Men are always much more dignified than most women.

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.

I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.

I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much.

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 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.

I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.

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.

I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

With women, the more unhappy they are, the more undressed they are.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

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.

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.

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.

Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.

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.

This is an example of hypocrisy

Fashion is an instant language.

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

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing.

I like to be useful to people.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men and women.

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