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I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

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Anna Sui
Age: 54
Artist
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Fashion Designer
Detroit
Michigan
Suburbs
Detroit
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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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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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No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
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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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The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.
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The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.
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Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.
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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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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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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 just love the whole idea of conversational prints.
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I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
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Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
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Fashion should be fun and accessible.
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