The colors kind of take on a very earthy tone, but with a richness of a forest or a garden. Dark greens, redish browns, kind of golden yellows, and some oranges for accent.
Anna Sui
I love this collection because it's really, really me. I didn't want to see nudity, I wanted to see clothing, so we've been layering things.
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You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.
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Every season I buy a double-breasted jacket but it could be fitted, very boxy. It could be oversized. It could be forties-shaped. So I think it's my job to make it desirable and new for the customer and the customer always has to fill in that slot in their wardrobe.
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kind dark colors forest garden richness
The shapes are very elongated and lean. My sweaters kind of go beyond the hip. They're very, very skinny. A lot of the jackets are cardigan shapes and again, they're long and skinny.
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[NEW YORK (CNN) --] If you're going to live with it, you have to love it,.. Everything that comes into my apartment, I have to use.
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[Her latest addition to the living room -- paper mache furniture, with mother-of-pearl inlay -- follows those guidelines. What attracted her to it?] I think that the fact that it's black and that it has like this color in it and there's painting around it,.. It just doesn't seem real, and then the fact that it's functional too.
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[The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961).] My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines,.. And they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.
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[The master bedroom gets drama from its large-scale Victorian furniture and sophisticated mauve color scheme.] We tried about 20 mauves until we found the right shade,.. It could get kind of Pepto-Bismoly or too purpley.
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It's a touch of fantasy that you want. It adds just a touch of color, and you feel very feminine.
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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?
people
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.
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.
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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.
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I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.
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