Anna Sui Quotes

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

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?

I love the whole story of why something happened when it did and that’s what I put into the collections.

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

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.

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 love research. I love learning...

The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.

...all the formulas have flown out of the window.

I had a really typical, suburban, middle-class upbringing. The only thing out of the ordinary was being one of the few Chinese families in town.

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

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 am a New York designer and the things are made in New York...

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 grew up in Middle America and in the suburbs...