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" 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markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content. "

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" 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. "

Anna Sui

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" I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer. "

" I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway. "

" 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. "

" Fashion should be fun and accessible. "

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

Anna Sui

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing. "

" 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. "

" Nothing's faster than the Internet. "

" I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets. "

" 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? "

" When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" A piece of fabric can get me going. "

" Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off! "

Anna Sui

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" 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 grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. "

Anna Sui

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" 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. "

Anna Sui

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" No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show. "