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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.

Anna Sui

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Anna Sui
Age: 54
Artist
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Detroit
Michigan
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I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.
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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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I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
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Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
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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 love the fact that fashion always changes, and I hate the fact that it always changes.
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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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When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
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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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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 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 never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
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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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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.
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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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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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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 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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