Anna Sui

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

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

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.

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

Nothing's faster than the Internet.