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Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

Miuccia Prada

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Miuccia Prada
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 10
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Mime Artist
Milano
Italia
Maria Bianchi
Miuccia Bianchi Prada
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Fashion
Beauty
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Fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes?
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I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.
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I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.
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The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.
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Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.
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Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.
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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.
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You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.
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Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don't think it's something tricky - it's being human. And everybody is seduced by something different.
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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.
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You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.
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My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.
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Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.
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Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.
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I don't want to say temporary, because temporary is such a trendy word.
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I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.
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What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.
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Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.
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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.
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The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.
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