Betsey Johnson - A Bold Soul With Determination!

Betsey Johnson was a gutsy lady. Born in 1942 in Connecticut, She lived a passion led profession! Betsey was inspired from her dance classes where she attended as a little girl. She was an awful admirer of dance and costume. The deadly combination boosted her burning passion.  She started getting the attention   once she got a position as designer for Paraphernalia, a hip and sexy boutique with other young designers.She set latest fashion trends.Betsey was a fashion designer,class apart.
In 1968 she married John Cale, who wore her designs on the stage and in daily life also. They divorced in 1971.Betsey opened the Betsey Bunki Nini boutique in 1969 and immediately got offered a job by Alvin Duskin in San Francisco. The two jobs kept her over busy and globetrotting.   Betsey had a fancy over silk, her most of the clothes are silk in texture. Betsey was a designer with full ear to ear grin and a force of energy in the fashion world.Her fashion and styles have carved a niche in fashion industry.
She stole the stage with swinging style in 1960’s. It was a turbulent time when conservationists believed that her style and fashion was meant for only street-inspired chic and had the influence of British rock n roll on American youth culture.Betsey is known for trendy fashion and styles.
During this decade, Johnson helped launch the American fashion revolution with her space age silvery sci-fi dresses, see-through plastic shifts with discreet stick-on cover-ups, a "noise dress" with metal grommets at the hem that went clink-clank when the wearer moved, elephant bell-bottoms, and 14-inch metal micro-miniskirts. In those years her designs were worn by style setters such as actresses Julie Christie and Brigitte Bardot, model Twiggy, and first lady Jackie Kennedy. Over the ensuing decades Johnson continued to be an energetic leader in fashion design. As Susie Billingsley of Vogue magazine wrote: "She got on the street fashion wagon before anyone. She's always been way ahead of what's hip."