Geoffrey Beene Quotations

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

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

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

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

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

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

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

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

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

Some of my favorite things are the white jackets with the black zippers, that just zip and that's it.

One thing I've always believed, ... is that menswear fabric can go into the ballroom as well.

There are a lot of very, very soft boots on the collection because of the longer lengths of the dresses. There are very flat heels. There's hardly a high heel for day except in the very tailored suits.

I've analyzed most of my designs in the past ten years ... and I never realized that I use so little fabric. I think that's the part of modernity that the more you can design with the less, maybe the more acceptable or the more meaningful clothes are.

It started with an apron, and then the bib. And it was like a piece of clothing that protected what was under it. Well, I think it's a pretty good theory,

I really went out of my way to simplify the collection and offer many, many different pieces so that a woman would have the option of putting together as much as she would like or not.

Before I ever think of a design I have to select the fabrics, so fabrics actually are the inspiration for any collection.

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

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

The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

Design is an unknown.

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

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