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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.

Anna Sui

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Anna Sui
Age: 54
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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 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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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 have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
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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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A piece of fabric can get me going.
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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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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
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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 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 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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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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Fashion should be fun and accessible.
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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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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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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 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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