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You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.

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Anna Sui
Age: 54
Artist
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Fashion Designer
Detroit
Michigan
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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 have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
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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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Nothing's faster than the Internet.
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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 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 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 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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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 just love the whole idea of conversational prints.
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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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Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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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 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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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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I grew up in the suburbs of 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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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 punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
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