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Fashion should be fun and accessible.

Anna Sui

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

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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 have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
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I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!
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When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.
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I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
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When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.
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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 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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You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.
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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 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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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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A piece of fabric can get me going.
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Nothing's faster than the Internet.
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There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture it depends on what I'm obsessing about.
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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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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
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Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
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I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
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