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" A piece of fabric can get me going. "
Fabric
Get
Going
" At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do. "
Know
You
Obstacles
" Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing. "
Editing
Book
Lot
" Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection. "
Interesting
See
Print
" Fashion should be fun and accessible. "
Fun
Should
Accessible
" I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets. "
Places
Say
Always
" I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too. "
Season
Clothes
Luxury
" I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. "
Grew
Up
Suburbs
" I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway. "
Ideas
Big
Runway
" I live for fashion. "
Live
Fashion
" 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markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content. "
Love
I Am
Seeing
" I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense. "
History
Together
Love
" 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. "
Love
Research
Want
" I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer. "
Person
Being
Business
" 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! "
Think
Work
I Am
" I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere. "
Parents
Think
Work
" I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now. "
World
Fashion
Think
" 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? "
People
Girl
Think
" I think 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. "
You
Place
Think
" No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show. "
Fashion
Solution
Show
" Nothing's faster than the Internet. "
Nothing
Faster
Internet
" 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. "
People
Mirror
Me
" Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off! "
Kind
Like
Thing
" When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration. "
Great
Books
Why
" 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. "
Now
Gone
Cotton
" When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time. "
Punk
Time
Disco
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