Designer Betsey Johnson has been pushing fashion boundaries for decades. She’s known for her very personal, very whimsical style, for bright colors, animal prints – and doing cartwheels into a splits at the end of her fashion shows. And, of course, there’s pink. Lots of pink. In her new self-titled memoir, Betsey, we learn more about the woman behind the brand. Yes, there’s whimsy and fun, but she’s also upfront about the less than fun times in her life, from difficult romantic relationships to health challenges to business failures. “All I wanted to do is just tell my little story and see if anyone could relate to it,” she tells NPR. Interview Highlights On her Norman Rockwell-ish upbringing in Connecticut Seventy-seven years later, we can talk fashion-forward. Way back then, I didn’t know a thing about fashion. Never cared to study it. And luckily, I was just born into a lovely family, great parents, farmland-kind-of-offshoot little suburb of Hartford. And growing up was really
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