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Geoffrey Beene
American
Designer
About the author
I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.
Geoffrey Beene,
American
Designer
#Fashion
#Women
Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
Geoffrey Beene,
American
Designer
#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,
American
Designer
#Life
#Giving
Design is an unknown.
Geoffrey Beene,
American
Designer
#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,
American
Designer
#Woman
#Clothes
#Possession
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
Geoffrey Beene,
American
Designer
#Nothing
#History
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,
American
Designer
#Woman
#Dress
#Paris
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,
American
Designer
Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.
Geoffrey Beene,
American
Designer
#Clothes
When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
Geoffrey Beene,
American
Designer
#Ideas
The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
Geoffrey Beene,
American
Designer
#Now
#Influence
#Fashion
#Paris
Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
Geoffrey Beene,
American
Designer
#State
#Fashion