Geoffrey Beene
Geoffrey Beene
Geoffrey Beenewas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth30 August 1924
CityHayensville, LA
CountryUnited States of America
drapes knows
I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.
fashion news too-much
Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
design
Design is an unknown.
paris way dresses
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.
ideas fabric picks
When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
bores concubines concealed
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
fashion flesh too-much
Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
giving design substance
Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
fashion believe
I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.
feel-better people design
The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.