Anna Sui is an American fashion designer who was born on August 4, 1964. She 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, and was named one of the “Top 5 Fashion Icons of the Decade”.
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Many fashion lines, footwear, cosmetics, fragrances, eyeglasses, jewelry, accessories, home products, and a range of gifts are among the product categories under her name. When she was a teenager, she read an article in Life magazine about the accomplishments of Mia Fonssagrives-Solow, a Parsons School of Design alumna who later moved to Paris and started a store with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
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Anna Sui Siblings: Meet Bobby Sui and Eddy Sui
Bobby Sui and Eddy Sui are Anna Sui’s siblings. Sui had her sights set on becoming a fashion designer by the time she was four years old. Sui’s mother brought a young Sui along when she went fabric shopping to teach her how to put together a wardrobe. Sui used to collect fabric scraps from her mother’s sewing sessions to dress her Barbie dolls and her brothers’ army action figures. Sui would spend hours watching her mother stitch.
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