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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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Anna Sui
Age: 54
Artist
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Detroit
Michigan
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Entertaining
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I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
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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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Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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Nothing's faster than the Internet.
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I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
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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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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 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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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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Fashion should be fun and accessible.
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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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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.
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No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
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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 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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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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Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
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A piece of fabric can get me going.
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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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