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A piece of fabric can get me going.

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Anna Sui
Age: 54
Artist
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Fashion Designer
Detroit
Michigan
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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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You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.
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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 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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No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
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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’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
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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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Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
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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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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 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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Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
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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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I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.
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Nothing's faster than the Internet.
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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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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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