Geoffrey Beene Quotes
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When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
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The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
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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.
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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.
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Design is an unknown.
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I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.
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I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.
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The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.
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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.
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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.
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Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
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The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.
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I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.
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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.
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The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
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Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
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Geoffrey Beene
- Born: August 30, 1924
- Died: September 28, 2004
- Occupation: Fashion designer