Miuccia Prada

“I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.”

“What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.”

“My parents were truly severe.”

“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've always been shy.”

“Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.”

“I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.”

“You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.”

“I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.”

“What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.”

“For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.”

“The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.”

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

“I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.”

“I like the irony in my work.”

“Every day I'm thinking about change.”

“My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific.”

“Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.”

“The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.”

“I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.”