For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
It's a question of velocity - people want more and more speed and companies are more and more aggressive, ... It is now a two-month cycle and if you enjoy what you do and want to be first in the class, you have to speed up a lot.
Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.
I'm not interested in how people dress.
What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.
I like to be useful to people.
Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don't think it's something tricky - it's being human. And everybody is seduced by something different.
I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.
The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.
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.
I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much.
Because of the Prada name, I can do things that people normally would not care about in the culture. I can have an exhibit by some forgotten artist who I love, and because it's Prada, people will come see it.
I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.
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.
I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.
When I talk with people, I don't even see what they are wearing . . . No, I recognize it if it's something particularly nice and interesting. I see the exception.
What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.