Oh thank gawd LuLu Johnson, layabout and moocher offer of mother and designer Betsey Johnson, is alright. She happened to be in LAX when a shooter started shooting, but don’t panic! She’s okay! Sort of. She needs help, people! I mean look at that carpeting she’s lying on, it’s what, negative twelve thread count? And I’ll bet the line at Starbucks is so long that her assistant won’t be back with her venti no foam skinny iced chai latte for at least a half hour. Won’t someone think of the (D-list) celebrities?
byCategory Archives: XOX Betsey Johnson
XOX Betsey Johnson: The Finale! Betsey Takes Tokyo!
XOX Betsey Johnson, Episode 7: Scary Boobs and Happy Surprises
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After Betsey Johnson’s Best Show Ever, it’s Betsey’s Birthday Week. Betsey now has to “connect to the computer world,” which is the final step in her three-point plan to relaunch her brand. Jeez. She wants to sell you her crap on her website. This’ll be rich. Betsey focuses on her website by looking like Iggy Pop’s discarded remains during a tanning slash lunch session. Continue reading
byXOX Betsey Johnson, Episode 6: Runway Party
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With two days until the big fashion show, Betsey meets with Brandon about the model fittings. Ooh! Cyndi Lauper is going to open the show! The first part will be thirty looks from each decade, and there are five decades of vintage…so that’s a whole lot of clothing. The second part of the show is all about branded products, also known as Things With Betsey’s Name On Them. The last part is a prom dress tutu extravaganza. And finally, for who the heck knows what reason, LuLu is popping out of a cake. That’s disturbing, right? To ask your daughter to pop out of a cake like a stripper? Continue reading
byXOX Betsey Johnson, Episode 5: It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
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Betsey no longer has any stores because bankruptcy, so it’s kind of hard for her to host Fashion’s Night Out this year. Instead, she is bringing the party to her “closed down, boarded up” former flagship store in Soho, also known as “the streets.” Continue reading
byXOX Betsey Johnson, Episode 4: More Party, More Bigger, More Sexy
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We’re back, I guess. It’s been a tumultuous week, but it looks like XOX Betsey Johnson will be on the Style Network Thursday at 8:30 p.m., at least for now. This is good, because Betsey is ramping up for her first show under the Madden brand—a retrospective that spans her entire ninety-year career. Continue reading
byIt’s Baaack!
Just when you shovel the last mound of dirt onto a television and send a show into the great beyond, the Style Network rushes in with a defibrillator and zaps the life back into XOX Betsey Johnson. Per the brains of the operation:
So tune into the Style Network Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. for the second coming of XOX Betsey Johnson. Or, just read my recaps.
byRIP XOX Betsey Johnson
I always double-check my DVR to make sure that my stories are recording because I am just that dedicated to the television lifestyle. So imagine my surprise on Sunday night when XOX Betsey Johnson was not in the line-up, and a search under the show’s name turned up no results. Continue reading
byXOX Betsey Johnson, Episode 3: Hoarders and Fluffers
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Betsey’s going through a mountain of boxes to find vintage clothes for her fashion show. She started designing in 1965, so Brad does the math and decides that it’s 47-years of clothing, which Betsey estimates as 40,000 dresses. Sigh. Math is hard. Continue reading
byXOX Betsey Johnson, Episode 2: Symbiotic Psychotics
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Betsey has a big meeting with Madden and Fashion Week on her mind, but she finds time to wander around Central Park. She approaches an artist street vendor and somehow it turns into Betsey drawing the vendor, where we learn that “caricatures are really hard….I never could shade….” The end result is whimsical, bordering on awful. Continue reading
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