Aspiring Fashion DesignerĪlmost immediately after graduating from college, Johnson made her first splash in the New York fashion industry by winning Mademoiselle magazine's Guest Editor Contest and earning a job with the magazine's art department. But after one year at Pratt, she transferred to Syracuse University, where she proved a stellar student, graduating magna cum laude as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society in 1964. Johnson was a cheerleader in high school, and upon graduating in 1960 she decided to pursue her interests in art and design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Johnson says that she settled on fashion designing when "I realized that making clothes is completing what a drawing can't be-going from two dimensional to reality." "What I tried to do was a combination of dance and art," she recalls. She loved the elaborate costumes she wore for her dance recitals and spent many long afternoons sketching costume ideas. In fact, it was a combination of these two interests that eventually led Johnson to fashion designing. She had a precocious talent for art, and throughout her youth, she trained in various styles of dance. Johnson grew up in the nearby town of Terryville as a child, where she indulged in her two greatest loves: drawing and dance. Early Lifeįashion designer Betsey Johnson was born on August 10, 1942, in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
Johnson opened a boutique in New York's Soho neighborhood, eventually followed by more than 60 stores worldwide. In the 70s, however, her career slumped until the punk rock style inspired her to create fashion for a new generation. Her fashion career skyrocketed when her avant garde designs became part of the 1960s "Youthquake" movement. Who Is Betsey Johnson?īetsey Johnson grew up with a passion for dance and art. Fashion designer Betsey Johnson developed her edgy, offbeat style during the new wave/punk era of the late 1970s.
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