"I'm always about optimism and exuberance. It's what I feel about fashion."

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“We do all the first samples here and all the production in the garment center, within these few blocks... I love the process.”

“... I am a New York designer and the things are made in New York...”

“They don't need me to be another Establishment designer. That's not what I'm good at...”

“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?”

“I had a really typical, suburban, middle-class upbringing. The only thing out of the ordinary was being one of the few Chinese families in town.”

“When I am designing, I make a selection of music that will be the inspiration behind the whole collection... I will be blasting that music—it becomes a journey I take in my brain to transfer that sound to the clothing.”

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