Anna Sui

Sui's signature wit and original designs draw legions of devotees to her pieces, including clients Patricia Arquette, Christina Ricci, Cher, Naomi Campbell, Sofia Coppola, Courtney Love of Hole and James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins. The first pinball to be manufactured by The Pinball Factory under the Bally Brand is The Crocodile Hunter Outback Adventure, a game tied in with Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo attraction on Australia's Sunshine Coast and with his series, The Crocodile Hunter, on Discovery Channel's Animal Planet channel. Her runway shows continue to set trends and inspire designers everywhere. In addition, The Pinball Factory also has bought the right to manufacture new games using his company's new hardware system under the Bally brand.
Called a designer that "never panders" by The New York Times, and named to the Time Magazine list of this decades top five fashion icons, Anna Sui continues to design and manufacture her signature collection in her New York City headquarters. On March 31, 2005, WMS Industries struck a deal with The Pinball Factory to give them an exclusive license for the intellectual properties and the rights to re-manufacture former Bally/Williams games in the field of mechanical pinball. The fashion community has enthusiastically welcomed these products and sales have increased dramatically with each new launch. In 1995 Bally Entertainment Corporation was purchased by Hilton Hotels Corporation, later the casino resorts division of Hilton Hotels became Park Place Entertainment.

Since it's succesfull begining, the fragrance line has expanded to include, Sui Love, Sui Dreams, Dolly Girl, and most recently, in association with Victoria's Secret, the fragrance Secret Wish. Midway would continue to use the Bally name for its pinball games, until WMS Industries (the parent company of Williams and Midway) ceased pinball production in 1999. For fall 2000, Sui Dreams, the second Anna Sui fragrance, launched worldwide. Many casinos worldwide would take on the Bally name in the maze of ownership and licensing agreements typical of that business. Wella will sell the fragrances to Albion, which will distribute them inside Japan, while Albion will sell the color cosmetics to Wella for distribution outside Japan. The health-club divisions of the company would go by the name Bally Health and Tennis and later Bally Total Fitness. Under some agreement, Wella will produce and market Anna Sui fragrances while Albion introduces the Anna Sui color collection to Japan. By 1992 the manufacturing division, Bally Gaming International (later became Alliance Gaming), had been completely divested from the parent company (licensing back the Bally name).

In a three-sided arrangement, Wella shares the Anna Sui beauty business with japanese cosmetics maker Albion, who holds the Anna Sui color cosmetics and skin care license. In 1990 the struggling company was taken over by financier Arthur Goldberg who re-christened it Bally Entertainment Corporation and focused on the health club business and spun off the manufacturing-related parts of the company as a separate division. In October 1997, Anna Sui signed a fragrance licensing deal with Wella AG, Germany to develop a signature fragrance. The Aladdin's Castle chain of game arcades was sold to Namco in 1993, and was renamed Namco Cybertainment, Inc.. In 1999, Sui launched her signature fragrance and cosmetic line. The pinball division, along with Midway, was acquired by Williams Electronics in 1988. Anna Sui opened her Los Angeles boutique in 1999 in Sunset Plaza, in West Hollywood. This buying spree quickly took its toll on the company finances, however, and Bally was soon forced to sell off several divisions, including Six Flags and Bally-Midway.

Manufactured by Ballin in Venice, Italy, the shoe collection is comprised of both day and evening styles, and include velvet, silk, patent leather, snake and lizard skin, shearling and suede. The company also was finally successful in purchasing several casinos, including the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and the Golden Nugget Atlantic City. In 1997, Anna Sui Shoes premiered on her runway for fall 1997. The company also tried to enter the restaurant business with a hybrid restaurant/arcade called TomFoolery, a predecessor to places like Dave and Buster's. Isetan Company Limited has attained the main license for the japanese distribution of the women's collection and Mammina, a subsidiary of Isetan, is the distributor to department and specialty stores there. The company began buying other businesses including the Six Flags amusement park chain, the Health and Tennis Club exercise chain and a maker of exercise equipment. The stores mark the continued worldwide expansion of the Anna Sui brand and lifestyle. By the mid-1980s the company again was flush with cash and management envisioned re-defining the manufacturing business as a far-flung leisure industry giant.

Another Osaka venue opened in 2000. In the late 1970s Bally made an unsuccessful attempt at getting into the casino business as Atlantic City legalized gambling; this effort was thwarted when the company was unable to attain a permanent license for the completed casino. The second opened in Osaka in the fall of that same year. In the 1970s Midway would become a primary source of income for Bally as it became an early arcade video game maker and obtained the licenses for two of the most popular videogames of all time, Space Invaders and Pac-Man. The first of three her freestanding boutiques in Asia opened on May, 1997 in Tokyo. In the late 1960s Bally became a publicly-traded company and went on an acquisition spree, buying several companies including a German game company and Midway Manufacturing, an amusement game company who made coin-operated electromechanical devices as puck bowling games. According to relative Grant Sui, "The stores have come to emphasize the epitome of culture in a continually shifting fashion world." There is no doubt that Anna Sui has created a line that will define fashion in today's society and inspire new inovations. Through the 1960s Bally continued to dominate the slot machine industry, cornering over 90% of the worldwide marked for the machines by the end of the decade.

This shop with purple walls and red floors has been reflecting her now famous taste of pairing flea market furniture and whimsical dolly head mannequins. Roy Moloney died in 1958 and the company foundered briefly; amid the financial failure of parent company Lions Manufacturing Bally was bought out by a group of investors in 1963. It was in 1992 that she took a chance with a personal clothing line and opened her first boutique shop at 113 Greene Street in Soho District, New York. After a wartime foray into manufacturing munitions and airplane parts, Bally Manufacturing continued to produce innovations in both pinball and slot machines through the late 1950s, and also designed and manufactured vending machines and established a coffee vending service. After leaving Parsons, she worked for variety of junior sportswear companies. In the late 1930s, Moloney decided to begin making gambling equipment, and had great success developing and improving the modern mechanical slot machines that formed the backbone of the nascent gaming industry. Her early days as a stylist from Meisel’s shoots include editorial for the Italian Fashion Magazine LEI. The company, based in Chicago, quickly became a leading maker of the popular games.

After graduating high school in her local city, Anna Sui moved to New York city to attend Parsons School of Design, where she started to work with close friend Steven Meisel who is today is widely recognized as the world's top fashion photographer. The company took its name from its first, highly successful, game, dubbed Ballyhoo. According to her own anecdote, she started with her dolls and her neighbor’s toy soldiers for her own personal version of Academy Awards, before making and designing some realistic clothes imitating magazine photos. The Bally Manufacturing Corporation was founded by Ray Moloney in early 1932 when Bally's original parent company, Lion Manufacturing, established the company to make pinball games.
. . Anna Sui (隋安娜) (born 1964 in Detroit, Michigan USA) is one of the world’s leading fashion designers. The company has existed for more than 70 years with a complex history of re-organizations, mergers, and divestitures; it had roots as an early and successful maker of pinball games and slot machines, and was later associated with both the health club and gambling industries.

. Bally (originally the Bally Manufacturing Corporation) is an American corporation. Playboy (2002). Blazing 7's (1993). Money Honey (1964).

The Crocodile Hunter Outback Adventure (2006). The Twilight Zone (1993). The Addams Family (1992; based on the 1992 movie, it would go on to become the best-selling pinball of all time). Xenon (1980; features music and voices by electronic music composer Suzanne Ciani).

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