Geoffrey Beene Quotes

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.
Geoffrey Beene

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.
Geoffrey Beene

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.
Geoffrey Beene

Design is an unknown.
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Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
Geoffrey Beene

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
Geoffrey Beene

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
Geoffrey Beene

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.
Geoffrey Beene

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.
Geoffrey Beene

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
Geoffrey Beene

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
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When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
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Biography

Type: Designer
Nationality: American
Born: August 30, 1927
Died: September 28, 2004

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