Top 80 Miuccia Prada Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.”

— Miuccia Prada

2. “The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you’re doing, and thinking it’s beautiful or rich, then you’re in danger.”

— Miuccia Prada

3. “Fashion is instant language.”

— Miuccia Prada

4. “Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.”

— Miuccia Prada

5. “Every day I’m thinking about change.”

— Miuccia Prada

6. “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

7. “Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.”

— Miuccia Prada

8. “I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.”

— Miuccia Prada

9. “The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, “I want, I want.” I never hear them saying what they want to give.”

— Miuccia Prada

10. “Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.”

— Miuccia Prada

11. “I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.”

— Miuccia Prada

12. “I don’t believe in people who think that clothes are not important.”

— Miuccia Prada

13. “I love uniforms because they allow you to hide. No one knows what you are thinking, so it’s a very appropriate and correct way to be yourself.”

— Miuccia Prada

14. “You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.”

— Miuccia Prada

15. “I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men’s clothes.”

— Miuccia Prada

16. “Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don’t have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices – a lot of not being their true self.”

— Miuccia Prada

17. “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.”

— Miuccia Prada

18. “I just hate talking about myself.”

— Miuccia Prada

19. “You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.”

— Miuccia Prada

20. “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.”

— Miuccia Prada

21. “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.”

— Miuccia Prada

22. “My family was too serious. They didn’t take care of me – it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring – like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.”

— Miuccia Prada

23. “It’s horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn’t bring them the happiness they think it will.”

— Miuccia Prada

24. “I respect my work. But also I think it’s very superficial.”

— Miuccia Prada

25. “I like to be useful to people.”

— Miuccia Prada

26. “This is an example of hypocrisy.”

— Miuccia Prada

27. “I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don’t love fashion, but I love clothes completely.”

— Miuccia Prada

28. “Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I’m attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.”

— Miuccia Prada

29. “I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.”

— Miuccia Prada

30. “What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.”

— Miuccia Prada

31. “You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.”

— Miuccia Prada

32. “Craziness in a shoe is great – you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn’t feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.”

— Miuccia Prada

33. “Daring to wear something different takes effort.”

— Miuccia Prada

34. “To have to be sexy? That I hate. To be outrageously sexy? That I love.”

— Miuccia Prada

35. “I’m not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody’s elegant. But fashion doesn’t interest me.”

— Miuccia Prada

36. “Men are always much more dignified than most women.”

— Miuccia Prada

37. “Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.”

— Miuccia Prada

38. “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.”

— Miuccia Prada

39. “It’s still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It’s all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.”

— Miuccia Prada

40. “You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.”

— Miuccia Prada

41. “I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don’t like is to get bored.”

— Miuccia Prada

42. “Basically I’m trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.”

— Miuccia Prada

43. “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.”

— Miuccia Prada

44. “For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It’s alive.”

— Miuccia Prada

45. “My learning process is by eye alone it’s not at all scientific.”

— Miuccia Prada

46. “I don’t believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.”

— Miuccia Prada

47. “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.”

— Miuccia Prada

48. “The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.”

— Miuccia Prada

49. “The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.”

— Miuccia Prada

50. “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.”

— Miuccia Prada