Geoffrey Beene Fashion Sketch circa 1960s
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| Management number | 2411036 | Release Date | 2025/07/08 | List Price | $22.74 | Model Number | 2411036 | ||
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Fashion designer Geoffrey Been Sketch on art board 11 x. 7 unframed.
Big Apple’s talented designer, Geoffrey Beene was born in 1924 in Louisiana. With a family full of doctors, he was expected to become a doctor too; but his career took a sharp turn and he became a fashion designer instead. Beene is known in the fashion industry to have an out-of-the-box approach to designing women’s clothes. Dubbed as the ‘godfather of minimalism’, for his non-stereotypical approach on designing couture, he studied at New York’s Traphagen School of Fashion. He then relocated to Paris to study at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne.
Well versed in the art of tailoring, he got his first job in 1951 in New York as an atelier designer at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel but soon got fired. He moved on to find a job at New York’s Garment District and worked as a designer for women’s wear at Teal Traina till 1963. By the end of the year, Beene had found his lucky break and he establis
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