Miuccia Prada Quotes

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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• Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Language

• I don't spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Model

• Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Fashion
  • Market
  • Capitalism

• As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • People
  • Help
  • Fashion

• I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Day
  • Humans
  • Interested

• There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Culture
  • Fashion

• The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Friends
  • Language
  • Loss

• A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Language
  • Perception
  • Total

• I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Acting

• Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Responsibility

• People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Me
  • Fashion

• I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Humans

• A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Person
  • Same

• Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Glamorous

• About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Language
  • Impossible
  • Try

• There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Night
  • Fashion
  • Fly

• I stay current and draw inspiration from Fashion Week in New York as well as just by scrolling through Instagram. The runways are always a good sign of what's to come, but I also get tons of ideas from real girls on the street.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Fashion
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration

• In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

  

  Roberto Cavalli
  • Fashion
  • Planet
  • Straight

• Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Father

• Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. . . . Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • Justice
  • Ideas
  • Knowing

• Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean.

  

  Burton Raffel
  • Breath
  • Flames
  • Dragon

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

  

  Miuccia Prada
  • Fashion
  • Language
  • Humans