Top 16 Quotes of Geoffrey Beene:
? The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.
? I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.
? Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
? Designs are a revelation to me. It\’s like
taking something that is not alive
and giving it form, shape, substance,
and life.
? The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
? Design is an unknown.
? Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
? When I don\’t have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
? 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.
? Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it\’s important.
? Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.
? I come in. I\’m going to sketch, I\’m going to drape, I don\’t know what I\’m going to do.
? The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
? The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.
? I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.
? I gave up medicine. So I\’ll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.
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? Author: Geoffrey Beene
? Career: Fashion designer
? Life: August 30, 1924 – September 28, 2004
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