Geoffrey Beene Quotes & Sayings

#1. Design is an unknown.

#2. 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.

#3. I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion ... I could be a colorist of spaceships.

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

#5. The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

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

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

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

#9. I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.

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

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

#12. Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

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

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

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

#16. The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

Geoffrey Beene Quotes