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Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.

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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Ugly
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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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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'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.
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You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.
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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'm not interested in how people dress.
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I'm not interested in types. I'm interested in archetypes.
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I don't believe in people who think that clothes are not important.
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In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.
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Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.
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I had no fun. My family was too serious.
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