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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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First
Different
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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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One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.
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If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing.
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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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To have to be sexy? That I hate. To be outrageously sexy? That I love.
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I just hate talking about myself.
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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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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.
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Because of the Prada name, I can do things that people normally would not care about in the culture. I can have an exhibit by some forgotten artist who I love, and because it's Prada, people will come see it.
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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 remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.
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I think more and more, if you live in the current world - and live internationally - it's all a mix of interests, and the same people who are interested in fashion are also interested in movies, art, and culture.
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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.
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I would say that clothes are an excuse for living in the world.
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I like to be useful to people.
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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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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 am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.
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It's what I say all the time to my girls in the office here: The more they dress for sex, the less they will have love or sex.
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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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