Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday at 77. Beene died at his home of complications of ...

SARASOTA — Libby Beene hopes this year's USRowing Masters National Championships at Benderson Park will be the final race of her career. In fact, the 75-year-old Nokomis resident isn't merely hoping.

All of us have key moments in our fashion evolution—moments when we realize that fashion isn't simply a frivolous imposition on the self but can be a cunning expression thereof, moments when we are ...

WHAT a load of crap. Pudgy little Oliver Beene gets covered with the stuff at the very beginning of the second episode of “Oliver Beene,” but I knew I was in trouble long before that. Maybe it’s ...

In the darkened gallery of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Geoffrey Beene stood to one side appraising his creations. He commented that when you work for clothing ...

If you’re going to copy, at least copy something good, as “Oliver Beene” does in borrowing heavily from Fox’s creative “Malcolm in the Middle” and ABC’s late, great “The Wonder Years.” The problem is ...

The Godfather of modern American minimalism, the fashion designer Geoffrey Beene was a lateral thinker, equal parts chemist and artist, who once said, "The more you learn about clothes, the more you ...

Legendary championship basketball coach and school administrator Lester J. Beene has passed away, but his legacy will endure forever in Fort Worth. Beene died on April 10 after a long battle with an ...

Rickey “Bear” Beene outside his Petros, Tennessee, studio. (Photo by Shawn Poynter) EDITOR’S NOTE: Rickey Beene, a self-taught painter who focused his art on the people of his hometown of Petros, ...