Top 35 Anna Sui Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.”

— Anna Sui

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

— Anna Sui

3. “Fashion should be fun and accessible.”

— Anna Sui

4. “I just love the way the ’60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies – and dressed their fantasies.”

— Anna Sui

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

— Anna Sui

6. “I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.”

— Anna Sui

7. “Totally girly – love all the childish sounds.”

— Anna Sui

8. “You still get the sheer quality coming through but you’re covered.”

— Anna Sui

9. “Well, my whole thing is that I’m kind of like a show-off!”

— Anna Sui

10. “From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!”

— Anna Sui

11. “When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn’t go beyond that aspiration at that point.”

— Anna Sui

12. “I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.”

— Anna Sui

13. “I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.”

— Anna Sui

14. “I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.”

— Anna Sui

15. “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

16. “No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.”

— Anna Sui

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

— Anna Sui

18. “Nothing’s faster than the Internet.”

— Anna Sui

19. “A piece of fabric can get me going.”

— Anna Sui

20. “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.”

— Anna Sui

21. “What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.”

— Anna Sui

22. “There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I’m obsessing about.”

— Anna Sui

23. “Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?”

— Anna Sui

24. “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.”

— Anna Sui

25. “Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.”

— Anna Sui

26. “To me if you’re going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.”

— Anna Sui

27. “Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That’s human nature.”

— Anna Sui

28. “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

29. “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.”

— Anna Sui

30. “Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!”

— Anna Sui

31. “I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places – up and coming cities that aren’t necessarily boom markets.”

— Anna Sui

32. “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

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

— Anna Sui

34. “I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.”

— Anna Sui

35. “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.”

— Anna Sui

36. “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?”

— Anna Sui

37. “I love the fact that fashion always changes, and I hate the fact that it always changes.”

— Anna Sui

38. “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!”

— Anna Sui

39. “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.”

— Anna Sui