Betsey Johnson Biography

Johnson's fashion career started after she entered and won the Mademoiselle Guest Editor Contest. Within a year she was the in-house designer for Manhattan boutique Paraphernalia. Johnson became part of both the youthquake fashion movement and Andy Warhol's underground scene along with The Velvet Underground Edie Sedgwick and Lou Reed. In 1969 she opened a boutique called Betsey Bunky Nini on New York's Upper East Side. Edie Sedgwick was her house model and Johnson designed the clothing Sedgwick wore on her last film Ciao! Manhattan.[citation needed] In the 1970s Johnson took control of the fashion label Alley Cat which was popular with the rock 'n roll musicians of the day. In her first year her debut collection for Alley Cat reportedly sold $5 million in volume.[5] In 1972 she won the Coty Award.
In 1978 Johnson started her own fashion line.In contrast her second collection did not sell well leaving her with 3000 pieces of spring clothing and insufficient funds to stage a 1981 fashion show to sell them and Johnson opened a retail store in the SoHo area of New York City. She designed the dress that Lisa Loeb wore in the music video for her 1994 hit Stay (I Missed You). In 2002 Johnson was inducted into the Fashion Walk of Fame. Her bronze plaque held one of her original sketches. In 2003 she expanded her line for 2004 to include handbags accessories hats and scarves.

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