Geoffrey Beene was the kind of designer who never stuck with the tried or true. He was a true modernist who experimented with soft fabrics for evening gowns because he thought clothing should be ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, September 27, 2006 -- A gift from the estate of renowned fashion designer Geoffrey Beene will enable Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) to launch an ambitious research initiative ...

Geoffrey Beene, who died yesterday at his Manhattan home at age 77,was the dean of American fashion designers. He helped define women’s fashion for more than 30 years, and was among the first to bring ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Baby it’s cold outside. But as most of America shivers this holiday season, the former Honolulu home of American fashion icon Geoffrey Beene, will definitely warm you up. Sprawling across more than ...

Legendary clothing designer Dapper Dan has firmly cemented his status in the lineage of Black fashion icons over the past several decades, and will be honored for it in historic fashion in November.

NEW YORK (AP) - Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday. The fashion designer was 77. Beene ...