Geoffrey Beene Quotes

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.

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

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

Design is an unknown.

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

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.

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.

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

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