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. Miuccia Prada More Quotes by Miuccia Prada More Quotes From Miuccia Prada People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is study! You have to learn. Miuccia Prada studyanswerspeople Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting. Miuccia Prada attractiveuglyexciting I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed. Miuccia Prada keyskinduse In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd. Miuccia Prada oddamericainteresting 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 sophisticatedmessageswant 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 passionnew-yorkthinking 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. Miuccia Prada girlofficesex I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely. Miuccia Prada love-fashionclothesfashion 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 vanityfashionthinking I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much. Miuccia Prada fashioncleverpeople I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me. Miuccia Prada fashiondressespeople Every day I'm thinking about change. Miuccia Prada thinking 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 shoestoo-muchstupid This is an example of hypocrisy Miuccia Prada hypocrisyexample The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental. Miuccia Prada donerealthinking I don't want to say temporary, because temporary is such a trendy word. Miuccia Prada temporary The younger generations have their own ideas, they have their own projects. When they talk, I am always surprised how much more lucid and cultivated they are and how they see things in a way that is much more complex than, for example, other generations did. Miuccia Prada younger-generation I always have this idea to create and display activities somewhere else around the world, but in fact it's been very difficult since the start, as you have to find the right place that can represent, or could be as significant as, your ideals. It rarely happens. Miuccia Prada significantdifficultworld The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably. Miuccia Prada 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? Miuccia Prada clothesfashiondrama