159 Quotes by Miuccia Prada

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.

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.

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

You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

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.

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

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.

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