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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.

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
Feminist
Uncomfortable
Fashion
Position
Worst
Imagine
Done
Sixties
Thing
Sixty

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Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.
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I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern times. And it’s too confining. What I love about fashion is its accessibility and its democracy. Everyone wears it, and everyone relates to it.
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We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.
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Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.
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