What's Beene Said
"Very immodestly I say that I did awaken Europe to the idea that Americans could design more than blue jeans."
- Geoffrey Beene
"My career has nothing to do with money. It has to do with self-expression."
- Geoffrey Beene
"I hated medicine, but the knowledge of the body, its movements, its proportion and all, has subconsciously helped me more than anything else in my career."
- Geoffrey Beene
"I feel myself an autocratic designer... what I do is mine and not derrivative from anyone else."
- Geoffrey Beene
"I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desireable."
- Geoffrey Beene
"In the beginning I made many mistakes. But I have tried to correct them and perfect them."
- Geoffrey Beene
"I've never had any qualms about mixing the humble with the rich. Plastic is perfect in its own way, so is a diamond. Why shouldn't the two go together?"
- Geoffrey Beene
"Somebody said, 'well what would I do if people end-up in uniforms?' And I said, 're-coloring.' So I'll still have a job."
- Geoffrey Beene
"The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable."
- Geoffrey Beene
"When individuality is lost, it's not just the end of fashion, but of freedom."
- Geoffrey Beene
"It's wonderful to affect lives by design."
- Geoffrey Beene
"I think the next fashion revolution shall come from the chemist too. When the chemist works with the artist there will be a revolution and it shall serve society."
- Geoffrey Beene
"Silver I do think is the one color that really is sort of looking toward the future."
- Geoffrey Beene
"I've never seen an alluring woman that was not dressed in black, so I'm staying with the alluring women who happen to be sort of warriors or soldiers at heart."
- Geoffrey Beene
