Geoffrey Beene Quotes

• I come in. I’m going to sketch, I’m going to drape, I don’t know what I’m going to do.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

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

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• I tell women not to believe everything they read about 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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• Design is an unknown.

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Geoffrey Beene (12)

Birth:	30th August, 1927
Death:	28th September, 2004
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Fashion Designer

About

Geoffrey Beene was born in Haynesville, Louisiana, USA. He was an American fashion designer. He was one of New York's most famous fashion designers, recognized for his artistic and technical skills and for creating simple, comfortable and dressy women's wear. He studied fashion design at the University of Southern California. He founded his firm, Geoffrey Beene, Inc., in New York City in 1963. A year later, he was awarded the Coty American Fashion Critics' Award, one of the most prestigious awards in fashion. His first collection was featured on the cover of Vogue Magazine.

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