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
When I don’t have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens. – Geoffrey Beene
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
Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it’s important. – Geoffrey Beene
Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs. – Geoffrey Beene
The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion. – Geoffrey Beene
Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another. – Geoffrey Beene
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. – Geoffrey Beene
Designis a revelation to me. It’s like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. – Geoffrey Beene
