I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
From Anna Sui
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.
I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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