Geoffrey Beene Quotes

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

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

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

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

The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

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

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

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

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

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.

Design is an unknown.

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

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

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.