Words matter. These are the best Anna Sui Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places – up and coming cities that aren’t necessarily boom markets.
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.
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 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.
I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
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 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?
No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
Fashion should be fun and accessible.
I live for fashion.
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 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.
I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.
Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?
When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.
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.
Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nothing’s faster than the Internet.
Well, my whole thing is that I’m kind of like a show-off!
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 love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.
I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.