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.
BETSEY JOHNSONI was a cheerleader for nine years.
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Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!
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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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I couldn’t live if I wasn’t a designer.
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There is an excitement about having nightmares.
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I’m not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
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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 was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
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My customer isn’t wrapped up in labels and money.
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I never keep anything beautiful in the closet.
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Hard times always lead to something great.
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Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
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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 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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[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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