Geoffrey Beene quotes
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“The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.”
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“I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.”
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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.”
-- Geoffrey BeeneSource : 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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“The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.”
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“When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.”
-- Geoffrey BeeneSource : 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.”
-- Geoffrey BeeneSource : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”
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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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“I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.”
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“The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.”
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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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“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 should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.”
-- Geoffrey BeeneSource : "Geoffrey Beene" by Veronica Horwell, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2004.
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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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“I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.”
-- Geoffrey BeeneSource : Geoffrey Beene, Franz Kafka, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.) (1994). “Geoffrey Beene unbound: interview”
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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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