Anna Sui Quotes

I am inspired by New York...

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

The man that owned the company that I worked for called me into the office and said how can you be on our payroll and have your own New York Times ad! This has to stop! And I said but it can't I have orders to ship. And he said well you're fired. And that's how I started my business.

We do all the first samples here and all the production in the garment center, within these few blocks... I love the process.

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?

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.

My main goal when I started my collection – and I didn’t think beyond this actually – was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people that go to rock concerts.

I think that I appeal to the girliness in all of us.

I don’t answer to anyone.

I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed.

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 bought a fur coat with my first pay cheque and it lived better than I did for years.

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

"It's kind of a dream come true, because to me fashion is not just the clothes, it's all the accoutrements that go with it...

Be true to yourself and figure out what it is that you are good at.