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Miuccia Prada is the granddaughter of the luxury fashion brand's founder, Mario Prada. She took over the family's fashion house as head designer in 1978.
Since then, the Italian designer has also founded subsidiary fashion brand Miu Miu, and now has an estimated net worth of $5.52 billion.
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While Miuccia’s designs shine on the runway, her interviews reveal her feminism, communism and lifelong aim to disrupt fashion’s status quo.
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.
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.
Miuccia Prada departs the Carlyle Hotel to attend Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala on May 7, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
People used to laugh at the way I dressed.
Be queen of the stupid!
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The Italian billionaire has been referred to as fashion’s “premier feminist” and has spent her career encouraging women to work hard and support themselves.
If you depend on a man for bread, how can you be happy?
Miuccia Prada walks the runway during the finale of the Miu Miu 2019 Cruise Collection Show at Hotel Regina on June 30, 2018 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
I hate the idea of everyone wearing Prada.
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