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020			_a9780525561439 _q(paperback)
020			_z9780525561422 _q(ebook)
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100	1		_aJohnson, Betsey, _eauthor. _922299
245	1	0	_aBetsey. : _ba memoir / _cBetsey Johnson with Mark Vitulano.
264		1	_aNew York : _bViking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, _c[2020]
300			_a272 pages : _bcol. ill. ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A memoir by the internationally famous fashion designer and style icon Betsey Johnson. Mention the name "Betsey Johnson" and almost every woman from the age of 15 to 75 can rapturously recall a favorite dress or outfit; whether worn for a prom, a wedding, or just to stand out from the crowd in a colorful way. They may also know her as a renegade single mom who palled around with Edie Sedgwick, Twiggy, and The Velvet Underground, or even as a celebrity contestant on Dancing with the Stars. Betsey is also famous for her iconic pink stores (she had 65 shops across the US) and for her habit of doing cartwheels and splits down the runway at the close of her fashion shows. Throughout her decades-long career, she's taken pride in producing fun but rule-breaking clothing at an accessible price point. What they might not know is that she built an empire from scratch, and brought stretch clothing to the masses in the 80s and 90s. Betsey will take the reader behind the tutu and delve deeply into what it took to go from a white picket fence childhood in Connecticut to becoming an internationally known force in a tough, competitive business. The book will feature Betsey's candid memories of the fashion and downtown scene in the 60s and how she started her own business from the ground up after designing successfully for multiple other companies. She will discuss that business's ups and downs and reinventions (including bankruptcy), and her thoughts on body image, love, divorce, men, motherhood, and her bout with breast cancer. Betsey is richly illustrated with many of her landmark clothes, fashion sketches, and personal photos--making the book the perfect memento and gift for every girl (of any age) for whom Betsey is, as a recent New York Times profile noted, "a role model still'"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aJohnson, Betsey. _922300
650		0	_aFashion designers _zUnited States _vBiography. _918967
700	1		_aVitulano, Mark, _eauthor. _922301
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aJohnson, Betsey, _tBetsey. _dNew York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, [2020] _z9780525561422 _w(DLC) 2019054575
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