Anna Sui’s True Colors: Her Perfect Red Lipstick, Green Nail Polish and Lavender Lingerie

Anna Sui is obsessed with “crazy mixes,” like Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple-meets-grunge. That was one of the mashups in her fall collection, shown at the Strand bookstore and applauded by longtime friends and front-row fixtures including Debbie Harry, Marc Jacobs, Sofia Coppola and her husband, Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars. While Sui’s inspirations change with the...