Growing up in the Midwest, Helen Jean knew of Geoffrey Beene as the name on the designer-licensed shirts and neckties her father purchased at the mall. It was only after she began her education in ...
Beene compatriots Patsy Tarr and Abbott Miller speak about the late fashion designer’s work in conjunction with the new exhibit of the same name.
The LSU Textile & Costume Museum in the Human Ecology Building, 330 Tower Drive, will open "Coming Home: Geoffrey Beene," with a reception from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, May 5. The show runs through Jan. 24 ...
New York City, NY -- People around the country can look in the mirror and see his work. Fashion designer Geoffrey Beene has died of pneumonia at 77. Beene became a design icon for his simple, classic ...
DIED. GEOFFREY BEENE, 77, one of America’s most original fashion designers; of complications of pneumonia; in New York City. The Louisiana native first landed on Seventh Avenue in the 1950s and ...
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The late fashion designer Geoffrey Beene’s oceanfront mansion in Honolulu has been sold to a Japanese company for $8.3 million, KITV4 has learned. Beene paid $2.5 million in 1992 ...
NEW YORK -- Geoffrey Beene, a single-minded innovator who put fashion above commerce yet succeeded in making a business from originality, died Tuesday at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.