Betsey Johnson Quotes

I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

I always wanted to bring something new to the table, and make clothes for women where they feel beautiful.

Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

Fashion is very judgmental. It's something where you have to be careful. I have a long way to go before I can be a designer. I'd love to one day, but we'll see.

To me, fashion is ceaselessly fascinating because it is an expression of self.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

I used to think fashion was silly, and now I think it can be one of the purest expressions of art.

I design clothing, and I'm a picker as well.

It's always a fantastic moment for me when someone wears one of our designs.

I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.

A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.

I've always been very inspired by fashion. I've always been a big fan of style.

I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

I do believe fashion should work as hard as a woman does.

I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.

Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.

You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.