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

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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I always have this idea to create and display activities somewhere else around the world, but in fact it's been very difficult since the start, as you have to find the right place that can represent, or could be as significant as, your ideals. It rarely happens.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 just hate talking about myself.
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When I talk with people, I don't even see what they are wearing . . . No, I recognize it if it's something particularly nice and interesting. I see the exception.
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We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.
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To have to be sexy? That I hate. To be outrageously sexy? That I love.
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Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
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When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.
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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 cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.
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Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.
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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?
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For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.
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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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I like to be useful to people.
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