Geoffrey Beene Quotes

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

  Geoffrey Beene

  Feel Better, People, Design

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• 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

  Giving, Design, Substance

  Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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

  Geoffrey Beene

  Bores, Concealed, Concubines

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• The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Unforgettable, Unimaginable

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

  Geoffrey Beene

  Fashion, Believe, Reading Books

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• 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

  Drapes, Knows

  Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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

  Geoffrey Beene

  Fashion, Flesh, Too Much

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

  Geoffrey Beene

  Ideas, Fabric, Happens

  Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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• Design is an unknown.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Death, Design

  Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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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

  Fashion, Doe, News

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

  Geoffrey Beene

  Hate, Clothes, Looks

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• Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Clothes, Looks, Form

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• 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, Interesting, Important

  "Geoffrey Beene" by Veronica Horwell, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2004.

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• 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

  Paris, Dresses, Way

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

  Geoffrey Beene

  Fashion, Paris, Influence

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

  Geoffrey Beene

  Fashion, Giving Up, Medicine

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