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Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

Miuccia Prada

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Miuccia Prada
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 10
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Mime Artist
Milano
Italia
Maria Bianchi
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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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I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.
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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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If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.
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I just hate talking about myself.
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I don't want to say temporary, because temporary is such a trendy word.
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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.
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I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.
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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.
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Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.
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I don't believe in people who think that clothes are not important.
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I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.
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