Miuccia Prada Quotes
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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.
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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.
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You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.
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I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
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We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.
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The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.
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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.
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It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.
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Men are always much more dignified than most women.
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Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.
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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.
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Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.
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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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With women, the more unhappy they are, the more undressed they are.
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Fashion is instant language.
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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.
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Daring to wear something different takes effort.
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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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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.
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I don't believe in people who think that clothes are not important.
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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.
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You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.
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You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.
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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.