1.
The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.
Geoffrey Beene
2.
I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.
Geoffrey Beene
3.
Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
Geoffrey Beene
4.
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
5.
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
Geoffrey Beene
6.
When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
Geoffrey Beene
7.
Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.
Geoffrey Beene
8.
Design is an unknown.
Geoffrey Beene
9.
Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
Geoffrey Beene
10.
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
11.
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
12.
The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
Geoffrey Beene
13.
The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.
Geoffrey Beene
14.
I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.
Geoffrey Beene
15.
Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.
Geoffrey Beene
16.
I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.
Geoffrey Beene