Quotes by Anna Sui

About Anna Sui:

Anna Sui is an American fashion designer. She was named one of the "Top 5 Fashion Icons of the Decade" and in 2009 earned the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), joining the ranks of Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, and Diane von Furstenberg. Her fashion brand includes clothing, shoes, cosmetics, eyewear, and accessories, as well as a line of fragrances. Anna Sui products are sold through her free-standing stores and distributors around the world in over 50 countries. In 2006, Fortune estimated the collective value of Sui's fashion empire at over $400 million.
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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.

Anna Sui

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Anna Sui

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.

Anna Sui

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.

Anna Sui

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

Anna Sui

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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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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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markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.

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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.

Anna Sui

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!

Anna Sui

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

I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

Anna Sui

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

Anna Sui

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 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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When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

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Fashion should be fun and accessible.

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A piece of fabric can get me going.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameAnna Sui
  • DescriptionUS fashion desginer
  • BornAugust 4, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionDesigner