It’s just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.
BETSEY JOHNSONReal success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
More Betsey Johnson Quotes
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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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[In the 1960s]…you could take LSD but you couldn’t wear a pantsuit.
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You have to hold onto your fantasy.
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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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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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If 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.
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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.
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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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I never keep anything beautiful in the closet.
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Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that’s extra special and thrilling because they shouldn’t be separated and their disabilities don’t have to separate them in anyway.
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Hard times always lead to something great.
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My customer isn’t wrapped up in labels and money.
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I couldn’t live if I wasn’t a designer.
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With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
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There is an excitement about having nightmares.
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