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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
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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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When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
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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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You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.
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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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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 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 grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
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Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
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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 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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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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Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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