Geoffrey Beene, scan from Geoffrey Beene: The Anatomy of His Work by Brenda Cullerton
For Geoffrey Beene, “simplification is a very complicated process”. Propelled forever forward, he continues to pare down, to streamline the female anatomy, removing padding and interlinings, doing away with zippers and fasteners. As one reviewer has observed, “Beene works a bias so finely around bodily curves that even his seams look like they’re picking up speed.”
