Zitat des Tages von Miuccia Prada:
Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.
I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.
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.
If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.
Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
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.
I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.
I like the irony in my work.
In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties.
You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.
I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.
For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.
What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.
Daring to wear something different takes effort.
When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.
Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.
I'm not interested in how people dress.
The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.
I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely.
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.
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
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.
My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific.
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
I just hate talking about myself.
My parents were truly severe.
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.
Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.
I've always been shy.
I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.
Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.