A biography for Miuccia Pradahasn’t been written yet.
“It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.”
“Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.”
“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.”
“I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.”
“The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.”
“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.”
“In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties.”
“I just hate talking about myself.”
“What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.”
“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.”
“רציתי לנסות לדחוף קצת חופש לבגדי הגברים.”
“זה נורא כשאנשים מתעניינים רק בקניית מותגים, כי זה לא מביא להם את האושר שהם חושבים שזה יביא.”
“אני אוהבת בגדים. אולי אני יכולה להגיד שאני לא אוהבת אופנה, אבל אני לגמרי אוהבת בגדים.”
“מה שאתה לובש זה איך שאתה מציג את עצמך לעולם, במיוחד היום כשמגעים אנושיים עוברים כל כך מהר. אופנה היא שפה מיידית.”
“מה שמעניין אותי יותר מכול זה מתי יצירת אמנות כבר אינה רק חפץ, אלא גם נוגעת במציאות ובחיים.”
“בעיקרון אני מנסה לגרום לגברים להיות יותר רגישים ולנשים להיות יותר חזקות.”
“Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.”
“I do what I think is right.”
“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.”
“I'm not interested in how people dress.”