Geoffrey Beene Quotes

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

Geoffrey Beene

#2. Hell is the denial of the ordinary...

John Ciardi

#3. Don't be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of
writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed at.

Chris Baty

#4. No one, absolutely no one, can be trusted.

Shane Peacock

#5. Children are not children. They are just younger people.

Marianne Williamson

#6. I became obsessed with the one question-when was it, when were we, irrevocable? When did all the little tumblers fall into place and our fate was locked in and it became impossible for us to be anything other than what we became? When was the guilty moment?

Tiffany Reisz

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

Geoffrey Beene

#8. Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.

Rumi

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

Geoffrey Beene

#12. Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.

Robert Burns

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

Geoffrey Beene

#14. Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.

Julie Metz

#15. People who kill time are themselves not alive.

Amit Abraham

#16. What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

Geoffrey Beene

#19. 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

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

Geoffrey Beene

#21. To be recognised by a whole country is incredible.

Zinedine Zidane

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

Geoffrey Beene

#23. Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"

Frederick Lenz

#24. The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

Geoffrey Beene

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

Geoffrey Beene

#27. 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

#28. Design is an unknown.

Geoffrey Beene