Geoffrey Beene Quotes

"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Fashion, News)

"Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Life, Giving)

"Design is an unknown."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Design)

"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Clothes, Possession, Woman)

"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: History, Nothing)

"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
(Related: Dress, Paris, Woman)

"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

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

"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Ideas)

"The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Fashion, Influence, Now, Paris)

"Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Fashion, State)