Design is an unknown.

- Geoffrey Beene

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

- Geoffrey Beene

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

- Geoffrey Beene

The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

- Geoffrey Beene

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.

- Geoffrey Beene

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

- Geoffrey Beene

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

- Geoffrey Beene

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

- Geoffrey Beene

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

- Geoffrey Beene