Betsey Johnson Influence On Fashion

Betsey Johnson was born on August 10, 1942 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. As a young child, her hobbies included drawing and dancing. Her old dance costumes from endless recitals and competitions inspired her to develop clothes of her own. Much of her funky personality was contributed by the clothes she designed earlier in life. Growing up in Connecticut, Johnson is a designer that represents the Fashion Capital of New York City. "What I tried to do was a combination of dance and art," she recalls. Johnson says that she settled on fashion designing when "I realized that making clothes is completing what a drawing can't be—going from two dimensional to reality." Betsey Johnson was on the cheer team all throughout high school and eventually got accepted into Pratt but later transferred to Syracuse University where she graduated in 1964. She was named winner of Mademoiselle’s editor contest which won her a spot with the magazine’s art department.
There, she became the designer she is today . Mix match, spunky, colorful, avant-garde fashion. Betsey Johnson, Andy Warhol, and Mary Quant were some on the first who introduced a new fashion revolution. The 1960’s, “Youthquake.” This was a time of cultural, musical and most of all, a fashion movement. After 5 eventful years working at Paraphernalia, Johnson became a designer for the brand Alley Cat. She later earned herself the Coty Fashion Critics Award at the age of 29. Alley Cat eventually went out of business near the end of the 70s, Johnson was disappointed and took a hard fall thinking this may be the end of her career. But in fact, it was just the beginning. Betsey’s career launched in the 80’s. This time period expressed her true self. She opened her own store with former model Chantal Bacon located in SoHo New York, where her label took