Betsey Johnson

-Elli Stuhler

It’s unlikely that Lewis Carroll ever saw this coming. His collection of children’s stories about a little girl discovering the impassible (because nothing’s impossible) has taken the world by storm over and over again since the Victorian era.
The infinite possibilities (passibilies?) of imagination and absurdities that this story embodies, offer the perfect opportunity for fashion designers to emancipate their inner mad hatters. Needless to say, the Alice in Wonderland bandwagon is a crowded one. Everyone from Stella McCartney to Urban Outfitters to Avril Lavigne hopped on with an inspired collection. read more...

Photos by Rae Drake
Trying to amp up your V-Day date look? Rae took a trip to the Betsey Johnson boutique in Toronto's Yorkville, to capture these candy-heart-breakingly cute Valentine's looks. read more...

by Rosanna Carlucci
Red lipstick is an icon. It is also the calling card of Hollywood bombshells and Vintage Vixens both past and present. During the Fall 09 runway shows, red lipstick appeared not only on the mouths of countless models but also adorned their necks and handbags. Designers such as Dolce and Gabbana and Betsey Johnson revived the icon of red lipstick and incorporated it into both their jewellery and handbag designs. Most notably, Dolce and Gabbana’s whimsical lipstick necklace made of gold chains and tiny tubes of red lipstick dilated thousands of pupils and set vintage hearts aflutter. read more...

By Louisa Cohen | Photos by Erin Simkin

At first blush, the crowd was nothing more than bridge and tunnel folk, braces and bang, and fashion students lounging back on an empty runway air-humping to a remixed Brittany Womanizer beat…

Betsey’s gals were late for the ball and the crowd was more pumpkin than carriage - complaining of sore feet, double fisting brew, and asking me for all of my gum wtf?!

The midnight hour struck as The Chordettes chimed in with Mr. Sandman - and the crowd transformed…crinolines and sequins and girls with faces as sweet as buttercream icing. read more...

By Louisa Cohen | Photos by Erin Simkin

At first blush, the crowd was nothing more than bridge and tunnel folk, braces and bang, and fashion students lounging back on an empty runway air-humping to a remixed Brittany Womanizer beat…

Betsey’s gals were late for the ball and the crowd was more pumpkin than carriage - complaining of sore feet, double fisting brew, and asking me for all of my gum wtf?!

The midnight hour struck as The Chordettes chimed in with Mr. Sandman - and the crowd transformed…crinolines and sequins and girls with faces as sweet as buttercream icing. read more...