There is an excitement about having nightmares.
BETSEY JOHNSONWhen 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.
More Betsey Johnson Quotes
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Hard times always lead to something great.
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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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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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[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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I couldn’t live if I wasn’t a designer.
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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 never keep anything beautiful in the closet.
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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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It’s just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.
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I’m not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
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I don’t like to have time on my wall; it’s too-in-your-face.
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A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
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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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I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
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