By Peter Davis 5/23 9:00am

The Eight-Day Week

KURT COBAIN The Photography of JESSE FROHMAN Exhibition Opening

To Do Thursday: Betsey’s Bash

70-year-old reality TV star Betsey Johnson (The Style Network’s XOX Betsey Johnson, starring her daughter) and comeback kid (she recently filed for bankruptcy) has dug into her extensive archives and rejiggered her youthquake-y creations to present a Bollywood-style runway show. Break out the neon pink bindis. After Johnson’s style spectacle, funny ladies Sandra Bernhard and Taylor Negron will do some stand-up before a dance performance by Rioult Dance NY. Read More

By Steve Huff 4/26/12 11:29pm

Chapter 11

Betsey Johnson

Betsey Johnson Filing Chapter 11

Almost a week after we learned designer Betsey Johnson would be featured in a new reality show, Betsey And Lulu, comes the announcement that the spritely 69-year-old’s fashion line has filed for bankruptcy. As a result, over 300 Betsey Johnson employees will probably lose their jobs. To top that off, most of Betsey Johnson’s 63 stores will close.

All is not lost, however. Ms. Johnson still has the eponymous show in the works (as far as we know) and according to Forbes, this certainly isn’t the end of the brand name: Read More

By Drew Grant 2/14/12 11:18am

Fashion Week Observed

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Betsey Johnson and her lovely ladies (Patrick McMullan)

Overheard in the Front Row of Betsey Johnson (and Her After Party)

Out of all the shows we’ve gone to during this longer-than-a-week Fashion extravaganza, Betsey Johnson‘s was by far the most fun. Does that come as a shocker to anyone? The 65-year-old knows how to give her legion of fans–who run the gauntlet from punk-rock 15-year-olds to Russell Simmons–what they want, and we’re not just talking about her infamous cartwheel/splits routine that she’s become infamous for. Read More

By Joseph Alexiou 3/19/10 9:43pm

Loving the Li’l Ol’ Ladies

The delightful late-career resurgence of Betty White (popular Super Bowl commercial, Facebook campaign for her to host SNL, now scheduled for May 8, Mother’s Day) has got us thinking about other gero-comical women who refuse to rest on their well-earned laurels. Bless them!

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By Michael Miller 9/16/09 6:39pm

Betsey Johnson Goes Predictably Bonkers at Plaza

At the entrance to the Plaza Hotel last night, two girls—definitely models—stood guard wearing black and gold poofy skirts, t-shirts that said “Betsey’s One Night Stand,” and doorman hats.

“I’m just the bellhop,” one of them shrugged as someone chose to forego the rapidly forming line outside.

Betsey Johnson, as expected, threw herself Read More