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Miuccia Prada [1949-0] Italian

Rank: 101
Designer, Fashion Designer

Miuccia Prada is an Italian fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the head designer of Prada and the founder of its subsidiary Miu Miu.
The youngest granddaughter of Mario Prada, she took over the family-owned luxury goods manufacturer in 1978. Since then, the company has acquired Jil Sander, Helmut Lang and shoemaker Church & Co. In 2002, Prada opened her own contemporary art gallery.
In March 2013, she was one of the fifty best-dressed over 50 by the Guardian. As of 2014, she is l...
Read Moreisted as the 75th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. As of 2014, she has an estimated net worth of $11.1 billion.

Beauty, Change, Design, Learning, Sad, Women

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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.		101
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.	Women	102
If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.		103
Every day I'm thinking about change.	Change	104
Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.	Beauty	105
When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.		106
I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.		107
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.		108
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.		109
I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.		110
You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.		111
For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading.		112
My parents were truly severe.		113
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.	Beauty	114
The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.		115
For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.	Learning	116
I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely.		117
Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.		118
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.		119
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?		120
Daring to wear something different takes effort.		121
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.		122
The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.		123
I like the irony in my work.		124
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.		125
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.		126
Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.		201
I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.		202
I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.		203
My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific.		204
I had no fun. My family was too serious.		205
What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.		206
I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.		207
I just hate talking about myself.		208
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.		209
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.		210
I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.		211
Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.		212
When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.	Design, Sad	213
In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties.		214
Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.		215
I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.		216
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.		217
I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.		218
I do what I think is right.		219
I'm not interested in how people dress.		220
The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.		221
I've always been shy.		222
Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.		223
I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.		224

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