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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.

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Anna Sui
Age: 54
Artist
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Detroit
Michigan
Beyond
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Common
Sense
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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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The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.
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I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
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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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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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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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No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
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Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
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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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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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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 love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
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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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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 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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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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Fashion should be fun and accessible.
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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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When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.
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