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Top 10 Interesting Facts about Anna Sui

Anna Sui is an American fashion designer from Detroit. She was once named one of the “Top 5 Fashion Icons of the Decade”

Anna Sui was born to French-educated Chinese emigrants in 1952. She is a descendent of the Fang family of Tongcheng, Anhui, a Quin and Ming dynasty noble family. Sui is also an 18th generation descendent of influential Chinese poet, Fang Bao, who founded the Tongcheng School of literary prose.

Anna Sui is one of New York鈥檚 most beloved and accomplished fashion designers, known for creating contemporary original clothing inspired by spectacular amounts of research into vintage styles and cultural arcana.

 Parsons School of Design in New York accepted her before the end of her senior high school year.

Sui joined New York鈥檚 intensely creative cultural underground in the 1970s, forging important relationships in the worlds of fashion, photography, art, music, and design.

Anna Sui owns over 50 boutiques in 8 countries while her collection and products are sold in 300 stores in over 30 countries.

Read on for more interesting facts about Anna Sui.

1. Anna Sui Wanted to be a Fashion Designer from Age 4

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Her work in the fashion industry has inspired many other designers around the world.

Sui knew she wanted to be a fashion designer by the age of four. She learned from her mother how to put a wardrobe together and shop for fabrics.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, she watched her mother sew at home and collected fabric scraps to create outfits for her Barbie dolls and her brother鈥檚 army figures.

In her teenage years, Anna would create her own garments by buying different pattern pieces of clothes and swapping them for a new piece of art.

After reading an article as a teen in Life Magazine about the achievements of New York real estate developer Mia Fonssagrives-Solow who graduated from Parsons the New School of Design, she decided to pursue her goals.

Sui decided to move to New York and attend Parsons.

2. Anna Sui Launched her Fashion Line in 1980

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After attending Parsons School of Design in New York for two years, Anna branched off and designed for several sportswear companies.

She also styled photoshoots for her friend and former Parsons classmate, photographer Steven Meisel.

Inspired by the underground rock music scene in New York and her hometown of Detroit, Sui began creating clothes with a countercultural flare in her spare time.

She brought five pieces to a trade show in New York. Bloomingdale鈥檚 and Macy鈥檚 picked up her label and the rest is history.

3. Anna Sui鈥檚 Big Break was at the Paris Fashion Week

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Sui鈥檚 first major breakthrough in her career occurred in 1991 at Paris Fashion Week.

While driving with friend Steven Meisel to a Jean Paul Gaultier show, the pair stopped to pick up music icon Madonna who was a friend of Meisel鈥檚.

Madonna wore one of Sui鈥檚 designs to the event, gaining her tremendous popularity. Sui held her first runway show just one year later in New York City and opened her first retail shop in 1992.

After launching, Sui focused on creating her namesake label. After generating quite a following she held a fashion show in New York鈥檚 up-and-coming Meatpacking District.

To boost her presence her friends鈥� supermodels Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were on the runway.

4. Anna Sui is Among the World鈥檚 topmost Fashion Designers

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Anna Sui is an American fashion designer from Detroit. She has been named in the list of the “Top 5 Fashion Icons of the Decade.”

 Sui was honoured with the 鈥楥lassic Icon of Fashion Design鈥� at the China Fashion Awards in 2009.

She also received the  Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), joining the ranks of Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, and Diane von Furstenberg.

In 2011 she accepted the Harvard University leadership in the Arts award.

Her brand categories include several fashion lines, footwear, cosmetics, fragrances, eyewear, jewellery, accessories, home goods and a gifts line.

Throughout the years’ Anna Sui has participated in numerous collaborations with companies like Samsung for a limited edition mobile phone, the Gossip Girl themed 鈥楢nna Sui for Target鈥� collection, and Mattel for a limited edition Boho Barbie, Coach, Hush-Puppies and luggage giant Tumi.

For most in the industry, Anna Sui鈥檚 constant exploration of new ideas makes her a trendsetter or better yet the pioneer of the contemporary niche.

5. Anna Sui has 50 boutiques in 8 Countries

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In addition to her fashion lines, she has released cosmetics, footwear, eyewear, fragrances, jewellery, and accessories.

She also has a popular gifts and home goods line. You can find her products in more than 50 countries in her free-standing stores and online through her personal store and other distributors.

In 1992, Anna Sui opened her first boutique in NYC and won the CFDA Perry Ellis award for new fashion talent.

Years later Sui introduced her line of shoes and with the help of Isetan started opening freestanding boutiques throughout Japan.

In 2005 Sui began a two-year partnership with Victoria鈥檚 Secret; they sold her fragrance and cosmetic lines in stores and she designed a line of lingerie for them.

Today Anna Sui has over 50 boutiques in eight countries and her collection and products are sold in 300 stores in over 30 countries.

Anna Sui has stood the test of time in the fickle world of fashion.

6.  Music is Central to her Creativity

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Sui is such a fan of music (rock, punk and grunge) that her runway soundtrack is one of the most anticipated each season.

In fact, her music selection when she designs becomes the inspiration for that collection.

When she started her business she just wanted to design clothes for rock stars and rock music fans. Anna Sui targeted major boutiques selling clothes, records, magazines, and rock-oriented things.

Working within the confines of the rock music space was the entirety of scope in the beginning.

Her creative process starts by researching music that she would use for her runway theme so as to create the mood for the collection.

7.  Anna Sui is always Ahead of  Trends Fashionwise

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In other words, Sui is one of those unnervingly prescient people who always seems to have been where everyone else is just arriving.

Her influence isn鈥檛 simply everywhere; her aesthetic has become part of the fashion vocabulary from which almost everyone draws.

If you are delighted by the magpie style that has come to define Gucci and that has seeped into your closet by way of Zara or H&M, then you must thank designer Anna Sui.

This is because she has been creating collections that mix Victorian lace with hippie flowers and punk denim since she founded her line in 1981.

If you are male but prefer sweet dresses to sedate trousers Sui has been blurring gender lines on her runway before doing so was a political statement.

If you love grunge and got all worked up when Marc Jacobs reissued pieces from his 1993 grunge collection for Perry Ellis, it鈥檚 worth remembering that Sui鈥檚 1993 grunge collection was pretty darn good.

8. Anna Sui led the Push to Save the New York Garment District

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The New York Garment hosted more fashion companies鈥� headquarters than in Paris, Milan and London combined.

In 2009 New York鈥檚 reputation as a global fashion capital was threatened with the city鈥檚 once-bustling garment district facing extinction.

New York City was considering zoning changes that would allow the district鈥檚 factories to become offices.

A 1987 zoning amendment created the district to shield it from rising real estate prices, spurred by the redevelopment of nearby Times Square.

Anna Sui came up with an innovative way to raise awareness of the plight of the “Garment Centre”  aka New York’s fashion district: a T-shirt stating “Save the Garment Centre” with the email addresses of important New York officials on the back.

Today, the Garment District is located between 34th and 41st Streets, west of 6th Avenue. Although the area doesn’t go quite as far north as 42nd Street, in its heyday 42nd Street was a main artery of activity.

9.   She is Immensely Inspired by her Detroit Roots

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She grew up in the golden years of Detroit when it was such a wealth of music and fashion.

Every interesting rock band was passing through Detroit at the time, plus they had their own music scene between Motown and all the rock bands that developed while they were living in Michigan.

 Hudson’s downtown was the fashion mecca, every once in a while designers like Betsey Johnson make an appearance.

Pop up boutiques would expose her to British stuff, rock-and-roll clothing and some stores that bought some of the beautiful crepe dresses and chiffon dresses from London.

For Anna Sui it was a great time to grow up in Detroit.

10.  Anna Sui Dresses Super Models

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Not all fashion designers have a model clique as loyal as Anna Sui鈥檚.

After struggling to get her brand up and running for many years, Anna Sui鈥檚 supermodel friends Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista finally convinced her to do her own runway show in 1991.

With a little help (she paid the models with clothes) Sui pulled together a small show in the Meatpacking District and the rest is history.

She dressed actresses Winona Ryder and Nicole Kidman when she was starting out.

She鈥檚 had all the supermodels wearing her clothes.

Naomi was the big champion, and when the other girls would see Naomi or Linda [Evangelista] wearing her creations they would call and ask for or buy her clothes.

Anna Sui is celebrated in the history of fashion. She is known for her enduring designs and her skill in developing collections with cultural and historical references.

She is best known for her ready-to-wear collections with a boho-chic aesthetic. Originally from Detroit, Sui has mastered the art of combining bright colours with black while incorporating rich fabrics that reflect her culture and creativity.