Miuccia Prada

“For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading.”

“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 ju...”

“The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.”

“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 hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.”

“Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.”

“What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.”

“Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.”

“Daring to wear something different takes effort.”

“In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties.”

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

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

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

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

“Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.”

“When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.”

“I had no fun. My family was too serious.”

“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 have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.”