Coole vrouwen 2

Coole Vrouwen 2

Deze vrouw moet genoemd worden!
natuurlijk zijn er een miljoen dingen die ik bij dit onderwerp kan plaatsen, maar deze kon ik niet aan mij voorbij laten gaan. Deze vrouw is al een beetje op leeftijd, zij heeft haar geheel eigen label, en ik vind haar ronduit FABULOUS! Zij inspireert mij omdat ze zichzelf is, en daarmee heeft ze het ook nogeens gemaakt met haar designkleding, shoenen, tassen en accecoires! Ze is wie ze is en dat kunnen veel mensen niet zeggen. daarnaast is alles wat ze maakt geweldig.



Betsey Johnson (born August 10th, 1942, Wethersfield, Connecticut) is a fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. Many of her designs are considered "over the top" and embellished. She also is known for doing a cartwheel at the end of her fashion shows. She took many dance classes as a child and adolescent which inspired her love of costumes. After high school, Johnson studied at the Pratt Institute and then later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Syracuse University where she was a member of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority.After graduation, she spent a summer as a intern at Mademoiselle magazine.
Johnson's fashion career started when she entered and won the Mademoiselle Guest Editor Contest. Within a year she was the in-house designer for the 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 Bunki 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.
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 first collection for Alley Cat reportedly did $ million in volume. In 1972 she won the Coty Award.
In 1978, Johnson started her own fashion line While her first collection was a success, her second one bombed, leaving her with 3000 pieces of spring clothing and insufficient funds to stage a fashion show to attempt to seel them. In response, Johnson opened a retail store in SoHo.Today, there are over forty-five of her stores worldwide.
In 2002, Johnson was inducted into the Fashion Walk of Fame. Her bronze plaque held one of her original sketches. Then, in 2003, she expanded her line for 2004 to include handbags, accessories, hats, and scarves.
In 2008, Johnson was one of the contributors to Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna's book Cherry Bomb.The National Arts Club awarded John the 2009 Medal of Honor for Lifetime Achievement in Fashion.
She once described her style as a formula: "Take a leotard and add a skirt."



Personal life
In 1968, she married Velvet Underground's John Cale only to divorce in less than a year.She has a daughter, Lulu, in 1975 who was born immediately after Johnson did a children's wear collection show,and a granddaughter Layla who was born in March 2006. Lulu now works as her mother's creative director.In 2002, Johnson was diagnosed with breast cancer; she ultimately underwent a lumpectomy and radiation treatment.