At any appearance, I make sure that before the person takes a pic and runs away, that I make contact. All I can do is give that little bit of me, the kickback is miraculous.
BETSEY JOHNSONIf a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she’ll come back.
More Betsey Johnson Quotes
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I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better.
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I’m not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
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Hard times always lead to something great.
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Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.
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I never keep anything beautiful in the closet.
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I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it’s much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.
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You have to hold onto your fantasy.
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Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times.
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I couldn’t live if I wasn’t a designer.
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It’s just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.
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There is an excitement about having nightmares.
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When you’re designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that’s the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.
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I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
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If it hadn’t been for the rise of the working woman’s wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.
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I don’t like to have time on my wall; it’s too-in-your-face.
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