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Anna Sui Quotes
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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.
Anna Sui

2.
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.
Anna Sui

3.
What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.
Anna Sui

4.
The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.
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5.
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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6.
I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.
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7.
You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.
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8.
Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
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9.
I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
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10.
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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11.
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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12.
A piece of fabric can get me going.
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13.
I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
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14.
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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15.
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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16.
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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17.
I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!
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18.
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.
Anna Sui

19.
Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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20.
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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21.
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."
Anna Sui

22.
I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.
Anna Sui

23.
I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
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24.
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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25.
I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
Anna Sui

26.
Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
Anna Sui

27.
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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28.
I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
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29.
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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30.
When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
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31.
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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32.
Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
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33.
Nothing's faster than the Internet.
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34.
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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35.
I love the fact that fashion always changes, and I hate the fact that it always changes.
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36.
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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37.
Fashion should be fun and accessible.
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38.
There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.
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39.
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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40.
Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?
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41.
No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
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42.
You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.
Anna Sui