Last night, Betsey Johnson took the hot seat at New York’s 92Y as part of Fern Mallis’s ‘Fashion Icons’ discussion series. Entering the stage with a cartwheel and split, it was clear Johnson’s chat would be more animated than her predecessors’. Sitting down and stripping off a tutu, jacket, purse, and various other accessories only to nonchalantly toss them to the side, Mallis quickly warned the designer, “Ok Betsey you have to behave, sit back and we are going to talk.”

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