Betsey Johnson

Betsey Johnson Saved Fashion Week Yesterday

She filed for bankruptcy last year, then her fashion show was called off, but suddenly it was on again, and thank god for that because it brought levity and splash back to Fashion Week. What a production! First, various props were set up on pink mats up and down the runway--everything from sunglas ... More >>

WTF is Betsey Johnson Doing?

We're so confused about Betsey Johnson, you guys. Aren't you? What is she doing? Although we'll always love her for helping us fulfill our dreams of looking like a punk rock, glitter-infused cupcake at prom, its been a bumpy road for fans of the nutty 70-year-old designer. First, in April 2012, sh ... More >>

THE STYLISH ’60S

Music infiltrates the fashion world, 
like always

RUNWAY NOSTALGIA

A new documentary remembers the tents

New York Fashion Week Fall 2012: Oliver Twist in Wonderland at Marc Jacobs; Swinging London Inspires Betsey Johnson; Go to the Office With 3.1 Phillip Lim

Well before Marc Jacobs's show even got started, it was hard not to be impressed. To design his set, he'd hired artist Rachel Feinstein, who created what appeared to be a crumbling castle in the woods and an elevated winding path leading out into the audience. It immediately called to mind something ... More >>

Betsey Johnson Designing an 'Eloise'-Themed Christmas Tree For the Plaza Hotel

​Christmastime is coming, and with it Christmas trees. The most fun tree this year -- more fun than the recently-arrived Rockefeller Center tree -- will probably be the Plaza Hotel's Eloise-themed tree, designed by kooky Betsey Johnson. A good fit for Eloise, the sassiest little New Yorker of ... More >>

Betsey Johnson Cartwheels To More Glory As Nicki Minaj Cheers

​Irrepressible legend Betsey Johnson turned it out once again yesterday with a sexy, lusty show filled with clothes to die for. I loved getting a fourth row seat because as any fool knows, four is the new one! And the gift bags were divoon, with socks, chocolates, perfume, and "tinsel twirl" ... More >>

Fashion Week: Betsey Johnson's T&A Show Attracts Nicki Minaj; Katie Gallagher's Vampire Women Aim for Lady Gaga; The Lake & Stars Take Us To Mexico City; Suno Elegantly Hits the Mark for Spring

Angela Ashman​ Even the most jaded fashionistas will agree that nothing warms the heart at Fashion Week more than a Betsey Johnson show. Last night at Lincoln Center, the 69-year-old breast-cancer survivor (who still does a cartwheel and splits at the end of her shows!) sent a parade of curvy ... More >>

Fashion's Night Out Preview: Must-Go Spots

​Back in 2009 when Fashion's Night Out launched, Anna Wintour, the brainchild behind the event, aimed to celebrate the fashion industry and its consumers with an all-night party at shops and department stores throughout the city, in an attempt to spruce up retail sales in the wake of the marke ... More >>

My Photo Is On LES Restaurant Wall!

EJ Camp​If you're sitting there and feeling queasy, you can look over to my beaming puss and feel safe again. Or vice versa. It's at CO-OP Food & Drink, the restaurant at the Rivington Hotel, which was seized with the lovely idea of getting photographer E.J. Camp to capture the faces of vari ... More >>

Model Carolina Ramirez Gives Us Her Fashion Week Diary

Brad WalshCarolina Ramirez​Every Fashion Week we're in awe of how much models are put through. They're running around from show to show; they get their hair yanked, straightened, curled; they get touched on almost every part of their bodies by dressers, wear loads of makeup, and, probably the ... More >>

Fashion Week: Betsey Johnson Sends Out Real Models and Real Crossdressers; Bibhu Mohapatra Reminds Us to Fear the Future

style.com​It would take a heart of stone to dislike a Betsey Johnson runway show--and not just because she always blasts Mick and Keef.

Fashion Week: Donald Trump Storms Back to Michael Kors, Anna Sui Channels Prohibition

All photos by Stacey Anderson​Donald Trump took a break from his burgeoning mosque empire to drop by Michael Kors' presentation on Wednesday--and though his old limelight nemesis Anna Wintour was also in attendance, the runway was free of bloodshed. Trump did bray about God-knows-what in close ... More >>

Fashion Week: Betsey Johnson Takes a Punked-Out Victory Lap, Herchcovitch:Alexandre Misses the Mothership

David Wentworth​Betsey Johnson's road has been rocky lately; no wonder she wanted a lift. But surfeit financial problems could not dampen the irresistible spirit of her "Le Tour de Betsey" runway show on Monday night, the designer's long-overdue return to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

Project Runway: Gretchen Crashes the Lincoln Center Finale, and Jessica Simpson for the Win?

Araceli Cruz​Tim Gunn must have needed the extra-strength dosage after Thursday morning's Project Runway Season 8 finale show. Midway through the carefully orchestrated hoodwink hour of 10 contestants' collections (seven the ringers, three the true finalists, in standard Runway fashion), the L ... More >>

Adults Want Kids' Birthday Parties; Restaurants Accept Cash Only

​An English professor from Manhattan was forcibly ejected from an Upper West Side Starbucks after refusing to order her bagel "without butter or cheese," which she claimed was linguistically stupid. [NY Post] Fruits and vegetables are ripening early this year due to warm weather, likely leadi ... More >>

Project Runway: Vagina Icicles for Everyone!

​The Runway Rundown: 1. With great power comes a great superiority complex, if you're Gretchen. The willowy Portlander has won both of the season's challenges, and is gradually revealing herself to be pretty damn pleased with this. She is alone in this sentiment: "It's like she opened up an U ... More >>

Betsey Johnson Revamps Eloise's $995 per Night Room at the Plaza (Photos)

​Eloise, the mischievous children's book character who famously lived in the "room on the tippy-top floor" of the Plaza Hotel, has had her digs redone by Betsey Johnson, and they're available for booking today. Johnson, known for bold, eccentric, and oft wacky clothing designs, "tweaked her s ... More >>

Michael Kors Dresses Weatherproof Mannequin, Gets Taste of His Own Project Runway Medicine

Michael Kors, Betsey Johnson, Diane von Furstenberg and 17 other top American designers are creating a summer-long "fashion show" that will march up Broadway from Herald Square to Times Square. The public art project, called "Sidewalk Catwalk" and put on by the Fashion Center Business Improvement D ... More >>

Ciao, Bryant Park! The Top 10 Trends For Fall

David WentworthBackstage at Betsey.​ Alas, another thrilling Fashion Week has come to an end. We partied at LNA with Metric and Patti Smith (who gave a heartfelt tribute to Alexander McQueen), cozied up to the handsome men modeling at the GQ Best New Designer showcase, got snowed on at Isaac M ... More >>

Diane von Furstenberg Commits to Sparkle Motion, Betsey Johnson Shoots and Scores

Discussed: Diane von Furstenberg, Rachel Roy, Betsey Johnson Stacey AndersonDVF​In Diane von Furstenberg's Fall 2010 line program, she explains her inspiration thusly: "I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body." And in that man's life, there will be glamour--oh, endless glitz. ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Ha, ha, ha. The sweet release of death is a week closer. In the afterlife we can forget all about Kanye and all these ridiculous (but highly amusing) tributes. New York had a big Primary Day -- or, judging by turnout, a dinky one. Our hero Tony Avella went down to defeat. The heavily fund ... More >>

Fashion Week in Review: Michael Kors, Anna Sui, Pamella Roland, Max Azria, Betsey Johnson

​ From the Betsey Johnson collection. Photo by David Wentworth. When Michael Kors tires of crafting pastel Barbarella dresses, he can sell designer migranes. I had one watching his Wednesday exhibition at Bryant Park -- not just because his pastel gowns caught the harsh glare of the revolvin ... More >>

Live: Ida Maria Play Betsey Johnson's Plaza Hotel Fashion Week Party

All photos by David Wentworth.​Ida Maria Betsey Johnson Spring 2010 Fashion Week Party Plaza Hotel September 15 As Betsey Johnson showers her with kisses - on one cheek, on the other, on the forehead, smack, smack, smack - the Norwegian synaesthetic Ida Maria smirks and adjusts her brilliantl ... More >>

More Steamy Blind Items!

That's what you get in this week's column [CLICK HERE], which I managed to compile before taking the vacation that has some of you so understandably distraught. Well, you can console yourselves with my tasty pile of tawdry anonymous tidbits--though that's only at the end of the opus. As with sex, yo ... More >>

Under Review--Sietsema At An Choi; DiGregorio At Aldea

This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema puts newcomer An Choi's banh mi to the test; while Sarah DiGregorio ducks it up Iberian-style at Aldea. Bruni knocks two stars off of Spice Market now that the restaurant has expanded to Atlanta, Istanbul and Doha, Qatar, which could be the reason "sloppines ... More >>

Times Says Thrifty Kids Disdain Labels in Favor of Other Labels

This morning, the New York Times reports on the first bit of truly heartening news to come out of the New Depression: Abercrombie & Fitch is screwed. While cheaper stores that you would have been embarrassed to go into when you were a kid thrive, every teen lifeguard's go-to outlet for douchebag t-s ... More >>

Auf Wiedersehen, Fashion Week!

It's been a long fashion week. Voice editors Araceli Cruz and Stacey Anderson say goodbye. Stacey AndresonBest model at Betsey Johnson AC: Ok, I'm sad. I feel my life becoming ordinary again. SA: And I'm sick. It is so exhausting, this fabulousness. AC: That's what happens when you cover a gazil ... More >>

Fashion Week: Patricia Field Parties with Santogold; Betsey Johnson Gives Peaches Geldof a Hamburger; Alice Olivia Show Art You Can't Wear

Stacey AndersonPatricia Field is just that into you Yesterday was day four of Fashion Week and also President's Day (pour a Veuve Clicquot on the curb for McKinley!), and your correspondents were happily back in our own turf: downtown. The Bryant Park tents in Midtown are glamorous, sure, with thei ... More >>

Fashion Week to Leave Bryant Park

amNY and NY1 are reporting that Fashion Week is expected to leave Bryant Park for Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park in 2010. Except for one season at the Chelsea Piers, Fashion Week has been headquartered at the park behind the Fifth Avenue Library since 1993. Earlier this week Vera Wang and Betsey Jo ... More >>

A Tour of Fashion Week

The catwalks, the clothes, the chit-chat: "Which of the Palin men do you think is cutest?"

Fashion Week Recap: Toilet Paper Huge at Sean John

Stuck on the Runways as Fashion Week Takes Off

Diary of a mad housedress

Joy of Sake Brings up Painful Memories

Betsey Johnson for 50 Bucks? Yes, Please.

Betsey Johnson Wants to Help You

From the Front: Yaeger on a Season "Under the Influence of the Dogs of War"

Get Your Wardrobe On

The fashion industry is obsessed with green—the color of military uniforms, army fatigues, and the scads of money it will cost you to buy next fall's designs

Pot Heads

Designer headdresses for AIDS benefit

Plus ça Change

Designing Women: Chanel and Schiaparelli at F.I.T., Karan and Sui in Soho

Weapons of Mass Consumption

Outlet Pass

The Travails and Triumphs of Woodbury Common

It Takes a Village

Shopping and Bohemia on 8th Street

Crocodile Rock

Fading to Black

When Fashion Became Unfashionable During 'Fashion Week'

On the Offensive

The Fall 2001 Fashion Shows

Old Acquaintance

The Spring 2001 Shows

Corrosion of Conformity

Fashionistas Comb Sale Racks, Trash

NY Mirror

For Common Threads

The Spring 2000 Fashion Shows