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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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I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
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Fashion should be fun and accessible.
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To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.
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From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!
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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’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
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I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.
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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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You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.
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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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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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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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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 just love the whole idea of conversational prints.
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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 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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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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