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I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.

Anna Sui

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Anna Sui
Age: 54
Artist
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Detroit
Michigan
Exuberance
Optimism
Fashion
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Feels
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I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
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I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make 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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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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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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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 just love the whole idea of conversational prints.
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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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You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.
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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
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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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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 think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.
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I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
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