{"id":2739,"date":"2009-07-04T02:22:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T01:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2009-07-04T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T01:22:08","slug":"betsey-johnson-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=2739","title":{"rendered":"Betsey Johnson Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2741\" title=\"betsey-johnson-spring-2009-rtw1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/betsey-johnson-spring-2009-rtw1.jpg\" alt=\"betsey-johnson-spring-2009-rtw1\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Betsey Johnson is eyeing up retirement after next September&#8217;s show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The designer recently said that she wants to go traveling, and that she and her business partner, Chantal Bacon, are working on a succession plan which will allow her to hand over the reins and become a &#8220;megaconsultant&#8221; instead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I should be retired. I&#8217;m basically screwing up because I&#8217;m not retired. I&#8217;d like to go in four days a month, something like that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My partner and I, we both want to know what would it be like to get up in the morning and go, &#8216;What do I do today?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for who she would like to fill her shoes, Betsey reckons Eric Sartori, who has designed for Herve Leger and Azzedine Ala\u00efa, will take the top job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is the one. He&#8217;s much better than I am. He just has to Betsey-fy himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catwalkqueen.com\" target=\"_self\">www.catwalkqueen.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betsey Johnson is eyeing up retirement after next September&#8217;s show.<br \/>\nThe designer recently said that she wants to go traveling, and that she and her business partner, Chantal Bacon, are working on a succession plan which will allow her to hand over the reins and become a &#8220;megaconsultant&#8221; instead.<br \/>\n&#8220;I should be retired. I&#8217;m basically screwing up [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}