Miuccia Prada Quotes

• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• Usually my ideas come from what I don’t want to do, or what I find is old.

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

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• The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.

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• The moment you start being in love with what you’re doing, and thinking it’s beautiful or rich, then you’re in danger.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I’m attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

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• My parents were truly severe.

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• My learning process is by eye alone; it’s not at all scientific.

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• 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?

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

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Miuccia Prada (51)

Birth:	10th May, 1949
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Entrepreneur, Fashion Designer

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