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The Pattern Queen

Patterns in Anna Sui Collections (2006-2009)

SS2009: Rosebud Pattern, Astrology Print

AW2008: Painting of Gustav Klimt, Totem Pole Print, Sixties Geometric Pattern

SS2008: Neon(Chemical elements), Seventies Geometric Pattern

FW2007: Newspaper Print, Romantic Victorian Pattern

SS2007: Floral Prints, Turkish-carpet Motifs, Zebra Print

Anna's adveristment AW/08

The Ad used of "mono chromatic" theory applying one hue and use of high value color and ombre color.

Colors Analysis of Anna Sui's Collections

We have elevated on the nearest 3 collections of Anna Sui, and have the following conclusion as the below examples.

She mainly used of 3-4 theme colors + black as her color family in each of her collections.

In Anna Sui collections, eg. AW08/09 Catwalks, the main color scheme used the traid scheme.

In Anna Sui collections, eg. SS09 Catwalks, the main color scheme used single split color scheme, from warm colors to contrasting cool shades Red and orange, in contrast, cool watery hues are seeing their fair share of time on the runway as well.

In each of her designs, she chose one color from the color family and used the method of adjusting the value and chorma. In changes of color scheme, she use some analogous color to link with the upcoming color.

The method she used gave a consistant and harmony feeling to the collection.

Anna's

Anna Sui REVIEWS

New York Times on Anna Sui's Fall 2000 collection "Ms. Sui seemed to transform herself from a club habitu?who always knew what was happening below 14th Street to a mature designer whose inspirations might be a Ken Russell film or a rococo palace? The upshot was a sophisticated look that relied not on obvious symbols of glamour, like pearls and trailing boas, but on simple modern ideals as lightness and comfort."

WWD on Anna Sui's Spring '99 collection"Anna Sui is a practiced hand at mixing antiquated romance and modern love?Her meld of 'rococo and gypsy' was so fresh it evoked a 'girl who's just fallen in the river and gotten back out,' just as Sui intended."

WWD on Anna Sui's Spring '98 collection"Three cheers for Anna Sui, who hung 10 with her fabulous spring collection...In one of her best collections in seasons, Anna Sui broke the boredom of fashion week with a terrific show."

The International Herald Tribune on the Spring '98 collection "Sui's style is rooted in the 1970's, with references to flower power hats, tiny Liberty floral prints, and to the ethnic trail. But she made it all seem fresh and modern... The collection had a sunny spirit that made the downbeat, downtown collections on other runways seem like last year's trends."

WWD on Anna Sui's Fall '97 collection"...(Sui's) clothes have never been about wallflowers. Instead, she loves a kind of overt, hip fashion that manages to be both saucy and sweet, and she has a knack for combining the familiar and the frivolous in a way that makes perfect sense."

The New York Times on the Spring '97 Anna Sui collection "Two forces are always at work in fashion: innocence and its brazen opposite. But what is amazing about Miuccia Prada and Anna Sui, fashion's most conniving designing women, is how they manage always to work both notions into their shows."

WWD on Anna Sui "Anna Sui is the sorceress of New York fashion - she definitely has the power to enchant."

The New York Times on Anna Sui's Fall '96 collection "It is Ms. Sui's method of research, paired with the madness of her creativity, that makes her shows more than inspirational. They are educational, too."

Anna's inspiration....
Victorian cowboys
Warhol superstars
Finnish textiles prints

Anna's styles:
-mixing vintage styles with her current culture obeesions
- makes hip and exuberant original clothes

SS08 Catwalks

This season Anna love the 'rehearsal clothes' worn by the chorus girls in the backstage scenes from Busy Berkeley musicals. The look for Spring 2008 is all about 1930's and 40's Hollywood glamour as filtered through the nostalgic sensibility of 1970's glam. Her muses for the season are super groupies Sable Starr and Cyrinda Foxe, and Warhol superstars Jane Forth and Donna Jordan. I love Jean Harlow movies, Guy Bourdin photographs and Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band.

The girls at Anna Sui reminded me of anime characters: they came down the runway with big toothy grins, crazy technicolor cropped 'dos, and eye makeup so heavy it was hard to recognize them.
She used all the bright colors, lively and bold, like spring itself: energetic blue