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 wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.

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?

Fashion should be fun and accessible.

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

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!

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

I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

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.

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markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.