I Would Say That Clothes Are An

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.

Ugly Is Attractive. Ugly Is Exciting.

I Want To Make Clothes That Are Beautiful Of Course, But Also Clothes That Are Interesting And Considered And Intelligent And Not Out Of Place.

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 Always Loved Aesthetics. Not Particularly Fashion, But An Idea Of Beauty.