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I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

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Anna Sui
Age: 54
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Fashion Designer
Detroit
Michigan
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Fashion should be fun and accessible.
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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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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 have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
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Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
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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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No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
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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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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 collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?
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I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
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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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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 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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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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A piece of fabric can get me going.
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To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.
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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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I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
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