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 love this collection because it's really, really me. I didn't want to see nudity, I wanted to see clothing, so we've been layering things.
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.
We have a lot of great vintage stores. I like shopping, in general, so I can simply go to a drugstore and shop.
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.
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.
You see a lot of uneven hemlines, a lot of biased cut, and a lot of pleating with uneven bottoms on the pleats,
The shapes are very elongated and lean. My sweaters kind of go beyond the hip. They're very, very skinny. A lot of the jackets are cardigan shapes and again, they're long and skinny.
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 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!