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Geoffrey Beene

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


— Geoffrey Beene


#flesh #much #state #terrible #too

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


#drape #going #i #know #sketch

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


— Geoffrey Beene


#believe #everything #fashion #i #read

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


#buy #concerned #dress #less #lives

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 #enjoy #even #important #inside

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


— Geoffrey Beene


#belonging #born #clothes #form #into

Design is an unknown.


— Geoffrey Beene


#unknown

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


— Geoffrey Beene


#form #giving #life #like #me

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


— Geoffrey Beene


#fashion #how #much #news #performs

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


— Geoffrey Beene


#concealed #everything #greatest #history #knew






About Geoffrey Beene






Did you know about Geoffrey Beene?

Career
In 1963 he started his own company Geoffrey Beene Inc. Legacy
In honor of Beene’s fashion legacy the Council of Fashion Designers of America created the annual Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement award which was presented in 2009 to the influential designer Anna Sui. Several of his former apprentices Kay Unger Alber Elbaz and Doo Ri Chung are now successful fashion designers thanks to his early guidance in their respective careers.

Geoffrey Beene (August 30 1924 – September 28 2004) was an American fashion designer.

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