Geoffrey Beene quotes:

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Design is an unknown.

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

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

The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

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