Anna Sui
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, joining the ranks of Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, and Diane von Furstenberg. Her brand categories include several fashion lines, footwear, cosmetics, fragrance, eyewear, jewelry, accessories, and a gifts line. Anna Sui products are sold through her free-standing stores...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth4 August 1964
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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!
A piece of fabric can get me going.
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.
I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.
I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
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.
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.
Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?
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.
Fashion should be fun and accessible.
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.
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.