9 Quotes & Sayings By Miuccia Prada

Miuccia Prada was born in 1966 in Turin. After training as a fashion designer, Prada launched her accessories label in 1990. She achieved worldwide success after she started designing for stars such as Nicole Kidman and Nicole Kruger. In 2003 Prada opened her first New York boutique, and the following year she was named Best Italian Designer at the CFDA Fashion Awards Read more

Her attitude towards luxury is summed up in one of her own creations: "I feel luxury is to have the rarest things on earth, but not to have them."

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My idea is always to avoid nostalgia. Miuccia Prada
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For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive. Miuccia Prada
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My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific. Miuccia Prada
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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. Miuccia Prada
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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. Miuccia Prada
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Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. Miuccia Prada
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My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific. Miuccia Prada
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I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes. Miuccia Prada