Miuccia Prada
Miuccia Prada
Miuccia Pradais an Italian fashion designer, and the businesswoman behind Prada and Miu Miu...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth10 May 1949
CityMilan, Italy
CountryItaly
political trying important
I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.
men clothes trying
I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.
powerful trying losing
I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity,
trying different introducing
I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.
strong-women stronger trying
Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.
style trying looks
Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.
fight women
Enough of sweetness, women need to get out there and fight again.
evening serious tried
We really think that now evening should come back serious. For me it was interesting because I tried to do a serious evening, but where you feel yourself very comfortable. Usually ... you feel yourself during the day and when it's the evening, it's always a problem. Evening usually is too serious. So now it's very serious, but I tried to make it young and wearable.
Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.
beauty femininity ideas perceived
I am always researching new ideas on beauty and femininity and the way it is perceived in contemporary culture.
beautiful call freedom mixing objects surplus
Basically, the idea is doing beautiful objects that you put together, ... So a lot of freedom -- in fact, we call it surplus because the idea is mixing materials, embroidery, sporty things.
mainly mixed
Lengths are mainly around the knee, but, in the evening, it is really short. So it's mixed up in that way.
love moment start
The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.
helped
When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.