Anna Sui Quotes

A piece of fabric can get me going.

Nothing’s faster than the Internet.

I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places – up and coming cities that aren’t necessarily boom markets.

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!

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

To me if you’re going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.

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.

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

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markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.

I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

I live for fashion.

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.