Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Geoffrey Beene

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American designer Geoffrey Beene.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Geoffrey Beene 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.

American - Designer | August 30, 1927 - September 28, 2004

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

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

Design is an unknown.

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

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

Geoffrey Beene

The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

Geoffrey Beene

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

Geoffrey Beene

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

Geoffrey Beene

Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Geoffrey Beene

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