Geoffrey Beene Quotes

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit.

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

Everything that I design I would wear myself.

Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex

Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

The best fashion advice I'd say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that's how you're gonna look your best 'cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

I like being done up! I love going to events and wearing fabulous gowns. I like hitting that spot of doing what feels good for me. If it makes other people happy, great; if it doesn't, then that's great, too!

I just be comfortable in my own skin; I might wear anything.

I just think fashion is about enjoying yourself and being comfortable in your skin and allowing you to be you - all the way live.

I think the biggest thing I've learned is to not really worry what people will say or think about what you wear. You have to wear what feels good on you, what you feel comfortable in. And I've just learned to not really care.

My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it.

I've found that I've settled into myself a little bit more in last year and started wearing things that I feel comfortable with and my own style and... I decided to just embrace the person that I am and the look I like, and what I think is pretty.

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life.

I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.

I love clothes that, when you put them on, you feel like you. I don't care whether anyone else likes them.

It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

You know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy... I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.

First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.

I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit. I can let other things speak for me now.