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A piece of fabric can get me going.
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Fabric
Pieces
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Nothing's faster than the Internet.
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Faster
Internet
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I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.
Anna Sui / Fashion Designer
Detroit
Grew
Grew Up
Suburbs
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Fashion should be fun and accessible.
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Fashion
Fun
Should
Accessible
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Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
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Girly
Sound
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I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.
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Ideas
Print
Whole
Conversational
Prints
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Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!
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Kind
Shows
Wells
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No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
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Fashion
Fashion Show
Found
Shows
Solution
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You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.
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Quality
Covered
Stills
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Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
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Book
Creating
Editing
Involve
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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.
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Dream
Common Sense
Focus
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I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.
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Fashion
Feels
Optimism
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I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
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Band
British
Garage
Invasion
Punk
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I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
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Business Person
Designer
Fashion
Fashion Designer
Wanted
Business Person Never
Intended
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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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Desire
Human Nature
Instant
Longing
Satisfaction
Further
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I love the fact that fashion always changes, and I hate the fact that it always changes.
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Facts
Fashion
Hate
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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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Cool
Concerts
Enough
Thinking
Work Always Enough
Collection
Cool Work Always
Concert
Wear
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When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
Anna Sui / Fashion Designer
Craze
Disco
Punk
Reactions
Reaction
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I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
Anna Sui / Fashion Designer
Big Responsibility
Ideas
Responsibility
Runway
Draw
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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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Imagination
Bikinis
Sexiest
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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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Art
Ends
Together
Love History Art
In The End
Mix
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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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Journey
Entertaining
Should
Shows
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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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Cake
Looks
People
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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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Discovery
Thrill
Velvet
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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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Giving Up
Interesting
Print
Textiles
Collection
Every Time
Saw
Suddenly
Textile
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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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Cities
Next
Unexpected
Big Thing
Boom
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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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Fantasy
Museums
Someday
Thinking
Love Time Work
Love Work Time
Museum
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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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Depends
Different
Furniture
Pieces
Influences
Piece
Season
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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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Book
Designer
Inspiration
Looks
Obvious
Puzzled
Great Look I Am
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I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.
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Flea Markets
Historical
Content
Love I Am Things
Cultures
Flea
Markets
Traveling
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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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Right Place
Right Time
Thinking
Respond
React
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I love research. When there's something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what was behind it, and where it went from there.
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Exactly What
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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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Fashion
Mirrors
Reflection
Times
Gonna
Wearing
Mirror
Reflect
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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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Clothes
Distributors
Frivolous
Luxury
Successful
Effect
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When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone.
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Cotton
Mills
Produce
Wool
Beautiful World Most Beautiful
Beautiful Most Beautiful World
Most Beautiful
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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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Rocks
Stars
Together
Dressed
Fantasies
Rock Stars
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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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Butterfly
People
Tattoo
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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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Big Business
Country
Fashion
Globalization
New Territory
Territory
Thinking
Designing
Business World Country
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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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China
Educated
France
Mind
Parent
Thinking
Anywhere
Citizen
Opened
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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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Aspiration
Clothes
Concerts
Rock Concerts
Rocks
Stars
Designing
Main Reason
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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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Girl
Ambiguity
Anna
Bad Girl
Downtown
Good Girl
Talking
Thinking
Good Always People
Good Bad People
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I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.
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Designer
Interesting
Stars
Attracted
Stars Always People
Dressed
Girlfriends
People Way Always
Interesting People
Rock
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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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Chinese
Designer
Ideas
Michigan
Obstacles
Thinking
Me Woman Know
None
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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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Bible
Fashion
Vogue Magazine
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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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Journey
Book
Painting
Praying
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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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