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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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The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.
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Nothing's faster than the Internet.
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Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
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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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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 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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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 have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
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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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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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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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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 think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!
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You just pray that something is going to hit you like lightning. Like a movie, a book, or a photograph, a painting, something that you can riff on it and learn more about it and explore it, and just go on a journey with it. So lots of times when I choose a theme, I'll also incorporate other things that I'm doing at that period.
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I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.
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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 just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies.
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I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.
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Fashion should be fun and accessible.
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