Anna Sui: The Nineties

Anna Sui: The Nineties is a fashion book written by Anna Sui herself, published by Rizzoli in 2025 and running to 176 pages. It centers on the decade that defined much of her reputation - the 1990s - and presents the story in the designer's own words, covering her runway shows, her design inspirations, and the cultural forces she was drawing from at every turn. Sui approaches the decade as what she calls a self-taught historian of culture, art, and fashion. The book moves through her collections chapter by chapter, connecting the clothes - slip dresses, baby-doll silhouettes, punk and grunge references, preppy and vintage-inspired pieces - to the music, films, photography, and art she was sampling at the time. Figures like Winona Ryder, Madonna, Kurt Cobain, and Courtney Love appear not as name-drops but as genuine markers of the moment the clothes inhabited. Interspersed throughout are interviews with friends and collaborators who were there: Marc Jacobs, Sofia Coppola, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington Burns, and Steff Yotka. Each speaks to a different facet of Sui's work and the world around it. The result is a document of one designer's decade, grounded in the DIY, analog, zine-saturated culture that made the nineties what they were. A substantial volume at 8.66 by 12.6 inches, this is a book aimed squarely at readers with a serious interest in fashion history, design, and the culture of the 1990s.…