Betsey Johnson has announced that she will be retiring this coming Fall. Sad!
Eric Sartori, who has designed for Vera Wang, Hervé Léger, and Azzedine Alaïa, will become the brand’s head designer.
“He is the one,” she says. “He’s much better than I am. He just has to Betsey-fy himself.”
“But I’ll be a mega-consultant," she added. "I’ll go in. I want to be like Ralph [Lauren]. Like, I always imagined the perfect life is like Ralph, where he goes in, and his wonderful expert crews show him work, and he goes, ‘Love it, love it, love it, um, we’ll just put that aside for the moment, love it, love it, hmmm.’ You know what I mean?” she said.
“And be that — be the inspiration, the light at the end of the tunnel, the fairy godmother that comes down.”
As long as Eric "Betsey-fys" himself, we'll happily accept him as a replacement.
