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Fashion should be fun and accessible.

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Anna Sui
Age: 54
Artist
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Detroit
Michigan
Accessible
Fashion
Fun

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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
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To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.
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Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
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What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.
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I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
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I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
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At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.
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I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
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I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
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I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.
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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.
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I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl?
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I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies.
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I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.
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Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?
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I knew since the age of four that I wanted to be a clothing designer. I read an article in LIFE magazine about two young ladies that graduated from Parsons School of Design, and when they graduated they went to Paris and Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor opened a boutique for them. So I thought, Oh, I just have to go to Parsons, that's all.
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From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!
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I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.
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