Top 15 Anna Sui Quotes

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

People create their own obstacles.

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

I’ve known a lot of talented people but the people that really, really, achieve success – there is ambition, focus and drive behind it.

We picked up Madonna at The Ritz to go to the Gaultier show together, and she took off her coat. At this point she hadn’t even said a word to me, but she leaned over and said to me, Anna, I have a surprise for you, and she showed me she was wearing my dress.

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 am inspired by New York...

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.

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

When I am designing, I make a selection of music that will be the inspiration behind the whole collection... I will be blasting that music—it becomes a journey I take in my brain to transfer that sound to the clothing.

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

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

American television is popular everywhere and its what I grew up on.

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

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