I’m not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
BETSEY JOHNSONI’m not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
BETSEY JOHNSONI was a cheerleader for nine years.
BETSEY JOHNSONIf 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 JOHNSON[In the 1960s]…you could take LSD but you couldn’t wear a pantsuit.
BETSEY JOHNSONA good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
BETSEY JOHNSONMy customer isn’t wrapped up in labels and money.
BETSEY JOHNSONThere is an excitement about having nightmares.
BETSEY JOHNSONJust 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.
BETSEY JOHNSONI 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 JOHNSONIf 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.
BETSEY JOHNSONI 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.
BETSEY JOHNSONKeep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!
BETSEY JOHNSONYou have to hold onto your fantasy.
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.
BETSEY JOHNSONLove is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.
BETSEY JOHNSONI couldn’t live if I wasn’t a designer.
BETSEY JOHNSON