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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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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 grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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