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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
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Fashion Designer
Detroit
Michigan
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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’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
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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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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 grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
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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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Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
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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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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.
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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.
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