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.
In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.
I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.
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.
Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.
When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.
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?
I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.
The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.
I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.
The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.
Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing.
Fashion is an instant language.
I do what I think is right.
For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading.
I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.
I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don't like is to get bored.
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.
I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely.
