"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."

"I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed."

"Be true to yourself and figure out what it is that you are good at."

"American television is popular everywhere and its what I grew up on."

"I grew up in Middle America and in the suburbs..."

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

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

"I don’t answer to anyone."

"I love the whole story of why something happened when it did and that’s what I put into the collections."

"I live for fashion."

""It's kind of a dream come true, because to me fashion is not just the clothes, it's all the accoutrements that go with it..."

"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?"

"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."

"I love research. I love learning..."

"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."

"I'm still dreaming."

"The man that owned the company that I worked for called me into the office and said how can you be on our payroll and have your own New York Times ad! This has to stop! And I said but it can't I have orders to ship. And he said well you're fired. And that's how I started my business."

"I think that I appeal to the girliness in all of us."

"I think a dream can take you farther than anything."

"I read about two young ladies that went to Parsons, and when they graduated Elizabeth Taylor opened a store for them in Paris and I thought okay-that's all I have to do!"

"To stand out in the crowd I liked the color purple."

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

"You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense. How could this young girl from the suburbs of Detroit become a success in New York? It was always that dream."

"The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part."

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

"We manipulate fabric."

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

"With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion..."

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

"Sui has never failed to stage a fantastical runway show..."

"It doesn’t do a critic well to try to neatly connect the dots between Sui’s inspirations and her clothing—the way she mashes up her many references is a singular skill that seems innate and above logical explanation."

"It's almost as though she's making one long movie and this movie jumps through times and places but the central character stays the same kind of girl."

"What stayed true about Anna was this wide eyed wonder, she's always been able to bring such beauty into what she does. I feel like an Anna Sui show is an education."

"She used to be a stylist... and I think that really sharpened her eye, she knows how to tell a story with clothes."

"Before eclecticism and the magpie mix were fashion world buzzwords, there was Anna Sui."

"When I think of her, I think of Mick Jagger. Jimi Hendrix. Heart. Stevie Nicks."

"...a woman who’s been nothing less than American fashion’s best storyteller for nearly three decades."

"Anna Sui helped define the look of Generation X."

"Anna Sui is one of the most important and influential American designers of the past twenty-five years."

"Anna Sui is synonymous with black, white and purple..."

"The lynchpin of her unique career is encyclopedic curiosity as much as commercial acumen, studied process and a deep respect for the techniques and traditions of her craft."

"Sui's gleeful eye sees poetry where fashion conformists see only the absurd."

"...all the formulas have flown out of the window."

"People create their own obstacles."

"I bought a fur coat with my first pay cheque and it lived better than I did for years."

"I’ve known a lot of talented people but the people that really, really, achieve success – there is ambition, focus and drive behind it."

"Then he tries to kiss me again. And the second time he tries to kiss me he starts biting my lip … He starts to, um, bite on my top lip and I tried to pull away from him. And then he forces me down on the bed. And I just was very frightened, and I tried to get away from him and I told him ‘No,’ that I didn’t want this to happen but he wouldn’t listen to me. … It was a real panicky, panicky situation. I was even to the point where I was getting very noisy, you know, yelling to ‘Please stop.’ And that’s when he pressed down on my right shoulder and he would bite my lip. … When everything was over with, he got up and straightened himself, and I was crying at the moment and he walks to the door, and calmly puts on his sunglasses. And before he goes out the door he says ‘You better get some ice on that.’ And he turned and went out the door"

"We struggle to manage complexity every day. We follow intricate diets to lose weight, juggle multiple remotes to operate our home entertainment systems, face proliferating data at the office, and hack through thickets of regulation at tax time. But complexity isn’t destiny. Sull and Eisenhardt argue there’s a better way: By developing a few simple yet effective rules, you can tackle even the most complex problems."