E for Exciting: November 2008

Forecasting the trends, inspired by Glam Rock in 70s, the theme of this collection is Gift wrapping. The concept is gift wrap yourself for the festive season. Garments are literally wrapped around the body and tied in decorative bows and rosettes in exaggerate and playful elements.

This scheme uses the analogic colors scheme and includes the comlimentary color. Achromatic bold outlines were used in the collection to bring out Sui devotion to Rock n' Roll makes her products perfect for a Rock n' Roll superstar.

This color scheme applied on the first and the fifth design, the scheme uses the analogous colors scheme, orange - red - and voilet, heavy weight ethnics prints brings focus point to big decorative bows and gift wrapping details on designs.

This color scheme applied on the second and the forth design, the scheme uses the analogic colors scheme and includes the comlimentary color. Voilet - yellow - redvoilet -bluevoilet, a tint hue from the socking brings your eyes look from the bottom to the top decorative bows on shaded hue underneath.

This color scheme applied on the third design, the scheme uses the adjacent complementary colors scheme, voilet - yellow - red (shaded), the model with long straight hair bringing our eyes to the deep-v dress down to the ethnic yellow prints on the bottom part of the dress which forms a vertical line in the whole design.

Anna Sui, an International fashion designer, Sui’s fashion career began at the early age of four. Sui has turned her fashion passion into 32 boutiques in five countries and a signature cosmetics line. Sui launched her first runway show in 1991. In 1992, Sui opened her first boutique shop in New York City's Soho District.

Sui's designs are always a mix of bright innovations, mixing a new approach to colour and texture with the best from fashion's past. Sui's was inspiration mostly comes from the American references and Victorian references. Influences by Sui’s mother, a painter, Sui's collections were art-movement-inspired, adapted lots of geometric, modernist patterns and contrasting colours. Sui's creates the Rock n’ Roll chic. Deep purple hues, rich designs, and bold textures are signature Anna Sui. It's the feeling of fantasy and luxury, with a touch of humour. Combining vintage styles with her current cultural obsessions, Victorian cowboys, Warhol superstars or Finnish textile prints, her depth of cultural knowledge is always apparent. Her unique styles are trendy and nostalgic, flea market and rock and roll, rococo and gypsy.

Anna Sui stores, the boutique's vibrant mix of black Victorian furniture, purple walls, papier mache dolly heads and rock n' roll posters closely reflects Anna Sui's personal decorating style and has been the model for all of her shops. Sui had always collected antique hat forms with naive painted faces. When she opened her first boutique in 1992, Sui and some of her friends fashioned dozens of papier mache dolly heads in the style of those original flea-market heads.

Elevation on the collections of Anna Sui, each season her influences are clear, startling new ideas, or draped her models in flowing layers and ethnic detailing.

In each of Sui's designs, she chose one colour from the colour family and used the method of adjusting the value and chorma. In changes of colour scheme, she uses some analogous colour to connect with the forthcoming colour. The method she used gave a consistent and harmony feeling to the collection.

Patterns play an important role in Sui's collections. She designs what she loves into prints. She did astrology print, rosebud pattern in SS09; painting of Gustav Klimt, Totem Pole print, sixties geometric pattern in AW08; Neon(Chemical elements), Seventies Geometric Pattern in SS08; Newspaper Print, Romantic Victorian Pattern in AW07 and so on...
Floral and ethnic prints are Sui's favourite prints collections.

Sui mainly used of 3-4 theme colours and black as her colour family in each of her collections.
In Sui’s AW08/09 collections, the main colour scheme used the triad scheme. She used all the iridescent peacock hues in vibrant ombres: ultramarine, periwinkle, cobalt, cyan, purple, heliotrope, amethyst, and teal.
In Sui’s SS09 collections, the main colour scheme used single split colour scheme, from aggressive colours to contrasting receding shades. Red and orange, in contrast, cool watery hues are seeing their fair share of time on the runway as well.

Culture gives influence to Anna Sui Collections. Forecasting the trends, inspired by Glam Rock in 70s, the theme of this collection is Gift wrapping. The concept is gift wrap yourself for the festive season. Garments are literally wrapped around the body and tied in decorative bows and rosettes in exaggerate and playful elements.

The collection uses the analogic colours scheme and includes the complimentary colour; high chroma; medium value; brights and metallic foils played with stripes and ethnic prints and special blister-pack textured fabric and excessive sheen fabric were introduced into the designs to provide celebrations impressions. Patchworks of pattern in mixed lace and paisley repeats for inspiration. Black bold outlines were used in individual garment pieces as Anna Sui devotion to Rock n’ Roll makes her clothes perfect for a Rock n ‘Roll superstar and closely reflects Sui’s personality.

It’s a challenge of our spirit and knowledge while working on this project. What I learnt does not meant what I can do. I did think of giving up but I know I’ll regret in the later time. Everyone is working as hard as I did, facing the same arduous problems. We work and discuss together, everything is better than we think together.