Betsey Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Mean #Special #Dresses
You have to hold onto your fantasy.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Fantasy
Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!
-- Betsey Johnson

#Beautiful #Cancer #Sides
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.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Girl #Fashion #Boys
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.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Daughter #Mother #Cancer
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Going Away #Machines #Use
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Real #Garbage #Speed
I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Clothes #Design #Body
Girls don't dress for boys....
-- Betsey Johnson

#Girl #Boys #Dresses
My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Labels
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.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Hate #Dresses #Levels
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.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Fashion #Home #Light
In the 60â€²s there was a look. In the 70â€²s there was a look, and in the 80â€²s. Now, it's a free-for-all.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Fashion #Looks
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 Johnson

#Girl #Mitzvah #Bars
I never keep anything beautiful in the closet.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Beautiful #Closets
Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive walking and dancing around on strangers. Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life...drawing attention to her beauty and specialness...her moods and movements...her dreams and fantasies.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Dream #Color #Drawing
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 Johnson

#Fashion #Cutting #Feel Better
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.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Kids #Found #Working Women
I was a cheerleader for nine years!
-- Betsey Johnson

#Cheerleading #Years #Nine
I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Designer
I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Dancing #Acrobatics #Specialty
Hard times always lead to something great.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Hard Times
I don't like to have time on my wall; it's too-in-your-face.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Wall #Faces #Your Face
Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Heart #Love Is #Disease
I'm usually the sparkle in a closet full of conservative clothes. Either that or my customer has a closet full of my clothes and a few conservative suits from Calvin Klein. I think you've got to give a girl what's missing from her closet. If something jazzy, tacky or sexy is what's missing, I provide it.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Girl #Sexy #Thinking
There is an excitement about having nightmares.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Excitement #Nightmare
It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Clothes #People #Support
I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Too Much #Type #Persons

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