Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview
A source page for quotes linked to Geoffrey Beene.
“I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.”
“I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.”
“Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.”
“I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.”
“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.”
“The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.”
“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.”
“The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.”