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
I go to flea markets every weekend if I can.
I think that the fact that it's black and that it has like this color in it and there's painting around it. It just doesn't seem real, and then the fact that it's functional too.
I was very inspired by Goth music, which was kind of this whole thing that happened in the early '80s. There were bands like the Cure, and Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees, but then I also kind of mixed it with Victorian Goth,
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!
When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.
Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
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?
I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.
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.
I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.