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.
BETSEY JOHNSONGirls 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.
More Betsey Johnson Quotes
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I was a cheerleader for nine years.
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You have to hold onto your fantasy.
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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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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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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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I couldn’t live if I wasn’t a designer.
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[In the 1960s]…you could take LSD but you couldn’t wear a pantsuit.
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I don’t like to have time on my wall; it’s too-in-your-face.
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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 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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Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.
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Hard times always lead to something great.
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I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
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There is an excitement about having nightmares.
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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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