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I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.

Anna Sui

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Anna Sui
Age: 54
Artist
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Fashion Designer
Detroit
Michigan
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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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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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No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
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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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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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Fashion should be fun and accessible.
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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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I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
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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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I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.
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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 whole idea of conversational prints.
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I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
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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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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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I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
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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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A piece of fabric can get me going.
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Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
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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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