XOX Betsey Johnson, Episode 1: Togetherness And Partnerships

Betsey Johnson Goes To New Jersey

I’m fairly excited about this show because Betsey seems like a great lady who can toss a cartwheel like the best of them. And, she’s a local gal who stumbled upon the thick of the fashion industry in the most awesome of decades, the 1970s, and guided my most misguided wardrobe choices throughout the 1980s. Her daughter, LuLu, has been working for her mother’s fashion empire for years. By the 1990s, Betsey Johnson had sixty-five stores worldwide, and business was booming. Until the economy bottomed out in the 2000s, ending in bankruptcy in April, 2012. Eh, it happens.

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