These are Miuccia Prada’s most memorable quotes:
She’s always aimed to change the perception of what is beautiful and is not scared of ugly.
Fashion fosters clichés of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying – or at least deconstructing – conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichés of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
Vogue, 2012
The designer’s work was very controversial at first, as it was different to avant-garde and classic styles of the time, but she was used to setting trends.