Anna Sui
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Anna Sui is an American fashion designer from Detroit.
She was named one of the top 5 Fashion Icons of the Decade in 2009, and received the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), rising her to the ranks of Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, and Diane von Furstenberg.
Several fashion lines, footwear, cosmetics, fragrances, eyewear, jewelry, accessories, and a gifts line are among her product categories.
In over 50 countries, Anna Sui products are available in her free-standing stores and distributors around the world.
Fortune estimated Sui's fashion empire's total value at over $400 million in 2006.
Early life and family origins
Sui is a second-generation Chinese-American born in Detroit, Michigan. Paul Sui's father, (Chinese: Xirpaing) and her mother, Grace Sui Fang (Fang Guangq), met while studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, where Sui's father was studying engineering and mother, painting. Xiao Yulan (Xi Yùlán), a Tahitian-Chinese businessman, and his partner, Qiu Daidi (Quid). Fang Chih, a Chinese diplomat and his Japanese wife Fang I-chih, were her maternal grandparents (born Masue Ueki).
Sui is a matrilineal descendant of the prominent Fang clan of Tongcheng, Anhui, which is known for its numerous scholars and scholars. She is an 18th-generation descendant of Fang Bao, a prominent Chinese poet who founded the Tongcheng School of literary prose, which became a hit in the Qing Empire. Fang Gongcheng, tutor of the imperial palace, and Fang Guancheng, Viceroy of Zhili, were amongst other Qing scholars present in Tianjin from 1749 to 1768. Chase Sui Wonders, an actress and singer, is her niece.
Sui knew she wanted to be a fashion designer by the time she was four years old. Sui's mother taught her how to put together a wardrobe, taking a teen Sui with her to the fabric store. Sui will spend hours watching her mother sew and then gather fabric scraps to dress Barbie dolls and her brothers' army action figures. Sui learned the basics of sewing clothes and soon she was designing her own outfits. This was made possible by purchasing pattern pieces for a dress's sleeves and converting them to match other dresses in order to create her own look for the garments.
Mia Fonssagrives-Solow, a student at Parsons School of Design in New York City and later moved to Paris, where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton opened a boutique with the teen. Sui says reading this essay was a pivotal moment in her youth, giving her a concrete plan for her future. Sui migrated to New York and Parsons.
Early career
Sui spent her second year at Parsons and was recruited by Erica Elias' juniors clothing company Charlie's Girls, where she learned by designing for sportswear labels and styling on friend and former Parsons classmate Steven Meisel's photography shoots. Sui's services as a stylist for Meisel's shoots in the Italian publication Lei specifically were well received. Sui worked for several other sportswear designers, including Bobbie Brooks and Simultanee, following Charlie's Girls' close. She began designing and making clothes outside of her apartment during this time. Sui said she was inspired to branch out on her own because of a desire to dress rock stars and others who attended their concerts. Indeed, the majority of her personal business was focusing on music store sales during this time. She took her five pieces to a New York trade show and attracted the attention of New York department stores Bloomingdale and Macy's. In August 1979, those clothes were included in a full-page Macy's ad in the Sunday edition of The New York Times. Sui's boss, who was still on the payroll, was furious when she saw the advertisement in the Times and fired her on the spot. Sui, a widow in poverty, launched a company from a tiny corner of the living room in her apartment. Sui operated the company for many years, doing odd jobs for spare cash and reinvesting every penny of income into her company.