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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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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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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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No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
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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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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 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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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 grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.
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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 the fact that fashion always changes, and I hate the fact that it always changes.
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I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
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When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
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