Sketch of a woman wearing a short sleeved, mandarin collar top that is full and quilted, over flare-legged pants. This is the cut-out of an advertisement, and the copy reads, Our black quilted calico top from Beene Bazaar is just the ticket for dressing up you basic black pants. This presumably refers to the designer Geoffrey Beene. Geoffrey Beene (born Samuel Albert Bozeman Jr., August 30, 1927 � September 28, 2004) was an American fashion designer. Beene was one of New York's most famous fashion designers, recognized for his artistic and technical skills and for creating simple, comfortable and dressy women's wear. . In his 1970 collection, Beene applied the use of inexpensive fabrics such as sweatshirt and denim fabric for evening dresses. Introduced in 1971, the Beene Bag line of women�s wear used the same silhouettes as his couture line. By the mid-1970s, Beene had a number of licensing agreements for products such as eyeglasses and bed sheets, and also his most famously known cologne called Grey Flannel, launched in 1975.