The Top 25 Quotes about Life, Work, and Fashion from Miuccia Prada

originally December 14, 2021

1. “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.”

2. “You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.”

3. “You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.”

4.“I don’t believe in people who think that clothes are not important.”

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

6. “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.”

7. “Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.”

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

9.”Basically I’m trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.”

10.“Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I’m attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.”

11. “Daring to wear something different take effort.”

12. “It’s horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn’t bring them the happiness they think it will.”

13. “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.”

14. “You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.”

15. “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.”

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

17. “You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.”

18. “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.”

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

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

21. “The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.”

22.”You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.”

23.”What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.”

24. “I like the irony in my work.”

25. “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.”