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

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

You just pray that something is going to hit you like lightning. Like a movie, a book, or a photograph, a painting, something that you can riff on it and learn more about it and explore it, and just go on a journey with it. So lots of times when I choose a theme, I'll also incorporate other things that I'm doing at that period.

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

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?

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.

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