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Fashion should be fun and accessible.

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

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I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.
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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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I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
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Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
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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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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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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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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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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
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Nothing's faster than the Internet.
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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
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You just pray that something is going to hit you like lightning. Like a movie, a book, or a photograph, a painting, something that you can riff on it and learn more about it and explore it, and just go on a journey with it. So lots of times when I choose a theme, I'll also incorporate other things that I'm doing at that period.
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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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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.
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I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
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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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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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