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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!

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Anna Sui
Age: 54
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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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Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
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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 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 grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
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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 have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
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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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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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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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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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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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Nothing's faster than the Internet.
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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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Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?
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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.
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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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No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
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