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
Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?
We have a lot of great vintage stores. I like shopping, in general, so I can simply go to a drugstore and shop.
Every season I buy a double-breasted jacket but it could be fitted, very boxy. It could be oversized. It could be forties-shaped. So I think it's my job to make it desirable and new for the customer and the customer always has to fill in that slot in their wardrobe.
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 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markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.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 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 go to flea markets every weekend if I can.
The only pants that I am using this season are jeans from my jeans collection. And, I've done them in denim again and also in corduroy.
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 would like to home wear sheets towels people always want to buy the furniture in my store.
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.