Designer shoes always favored by public, especially the young lady. Anna Sui has always been vocal about fashion and commerce. She supported the big push to protect the Garment Center from city rezoning and greedy landlords, and she has been vocal about her disapproval of the move next year.
Anna is heartily disapproving, believing that it will be difficult to walk garments over from the Garment area where many designers are based, and difficult to send runners back and forth for last minute changes and additions.
So, in a seeming farewell nod to Bryant Park after 15 years there, Anna Sui’s Spring 2010 background was of circus tents that echoed the Bryant Park tents. Anna’s artistic backgrounds are always items of note, and this one was no exception. I can just imagine art assistants painstakingly hand painting this background and putting glitter on it. I managed to snap Anna as she came out at the end for a quick wave and hugs with family and friends.
The show’s themes revolved around circus, marching bands, cute wild animals and her trademark free-spirited, flowery, butterfly-clad, unapologetically hippie-prepster girl (in keeping with her Gossip Girl-themed collection for Target, which is a tad bit edgier). Some of my favorite pieces were cute menswear.
I’ve never been a humongous Anna Sui fan, but now I’m converted. Now I understand why her shows are so well-attended. Doo.Ri was a quarter empty, but Anna Sui was packed to the gills. Doo.Ri’s clothes may be more up my alley, but for a happening, a real event, Anna knows how to put on a rocking, exciting, superfun show. The (not-as-anorexic) models smiled (gasp!) - grinned, even, and seemed on the verge of winking or doing a finger wave. The music rocked. The crowd gabbed and whispered excitedly.
“Everyone says (my brand) is very girly, very feminine, but then there’s a hard edge to it where there’s a rock influence, sort of good girl, bad girl ambiguity,” “I design more for a spirit of woman, not a certain age group.”
Anna’s show was so much more than the photos or videos can express.
I can tell you another reason why Anna’s models smile from ear to ear  … BECAUSE THEY WEAR FLATS!
That’s right, Anna Sui lets her models wear flats (and platforms that are flats in comparison to the evil spikes that parade down most runways). Anna must know the pain of wearing 5-inch stilettos in a way a male designer never could. I think the butterfly gladiators are amazing because while I don’t usually like butterflies, it’s not so incredibly outright obvious on these.
I have a crush on the shoes printing, so I always make my own shoes prints. In fact, there is nothing difficult in shoes printing if you have a shoes printer. Fashion shoes designs are my favorite. Custom your own shoes design with the expert printer. In Anna’s gift bags were jewelry boxes, glittery purple eyeshadow samples from her beauty line and samples of her new perfume Rock Star, starring the inimitable Agyness Deyn. Thanks Anna, it was lovely and loads of fun! Can’t wait to see your butterfly gladiators, blue bow flats and purple striped platforms for sale in the spring!