Geoffrey Beene Quotes

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

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  Ideas   Fabric   Happens  

  Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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

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  Bores   Concealed   Concubines  

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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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  Clothes   Interesting   Important  

  "Geoffrey Beene" by Veronica Horwell, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2004.

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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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  Drapes   Knows  

  Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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• Design is an unknown.

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  Death   Design  

  Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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

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  Hate   Clothes   Looks  

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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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  Fashion   Giving Up   Medicine  

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

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  Feel Better   People   Design  

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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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  Clothes   Looks   Form  

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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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  Giving   Design   Substance  

  Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”

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

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  Fashion   Flesh   Too Much  

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• The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

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  Unforgettable   Unimaginable  

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

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  Fashion   Believe   Reading Books  

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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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  Paris   Dresses   Way  

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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   Paris   Influence  

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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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  Fashion   Doe   News  

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