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 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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There is an excitement about having nightmares.
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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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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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I’m not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
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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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My customer isn’t wrapped up in labels and money.
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I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
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I couldn’t live if I wasn’t a designer.
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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 don’t like to have time on my wall; it’s too-in-your-face.
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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 was a cheerleader for nine years.
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You have to hold onto your fantasy.
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Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!
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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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