Anna Sui, with her rock-and-roll-meets-romance sensibilities and creative circle of friends, helped shape the look of the ’90s. With her first runway show in 1991, Sui’s frilly garments, ornate accessories, and overall aesthetic made her catwalks hot tickets and her babydoll dresses off-duty must-haves. Her collections now serve as both quintessential time capsules for the era and modern-day wells of inspiration, surging again in popularity among zoomers.

In her new book, aptly titled The Nineties , the designer, alongside firsthand accounts from her famous friends like Sofia Coppola, Marc Jacobs, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington, recounts the formative decade. The book has it all: Parties. Catwalks. Musicians. Movie stars. And Sui answers the question every person who wa

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