Deferentially known as Mrs. Prada, Miuccia Prada the highly distinguished storied fashion designer and businesswoman graces the cover of Vogue’s March 2024 issue. Miuccia Prada with Wendell Steavenson, discuss the fashion laureate’s rise to prominence, her fashion philosophy and ethos, The Prada Foundation, and her love of art, culture and friends.

“I personally have many characters in myself,” said Prada, “and I think that many people have different characters in themselves: the feminine part and the masculine part, the gentle and the tough.”

“Fashion is one third of my life,” said Prada, who has created two celebrated fashion labels, Prada and Miu Miu, and, together with her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, helms the Prada Group, a global luxury brand with $4.5 billion in annual revenue (as of 2022) and over 13,000 employees. (Prada Group also has a stake in Church’s shoes.) The second third of her life, she says, is “culture and the Fondazione.” Since its creation in 1993, the Prada Foundation has become a leading proponent of contemporary art. “After, there is family and friends, and possibly some pleasures.” She paused to reconsider. “Actually, they all overlap. I try to make my life useful.”

Read the interview at Vogue

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Photography @stef_mitchell
Written by Wendell Steavenson
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