Geoffrey Beene Quotes

United States, Fashion Designer
August 30, 1927 – September, 28, 2004.

Geoffrey Beene (born Samuel Albert Bozeman Jr., August 30, 1927 – September 28, 2004) was an American fashion designer. Beene 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.

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

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

Geoffrey Beene
- Fashion

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

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

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

Geoffrey Beene
Design is an unknown.

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

Geoffrey Beene
- Life
- Giving
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
- She
- Paris

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

Geoffrey Beene
When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Geoffrey Beene
- Up
The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

Geoffrey Beene
- Fashion
- Paris
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