Charles James
Charles James
Charles Wilson Brega Jameswas a British-born fashion designer known as "America's First Couturier". He is widely considered to have been a master of cutting and is known for his highly structured aesthetic...
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth18 July 1906
shapes silhouettes variation
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
shostakovich mediums happens
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
long design digging
The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.
important magazines coats
You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.
dresses helping figures
My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had,
fashion cement fragile
In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.
fashion art form
I spent my life making fashion an art form.
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Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.
book believe vanity
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
power-of-one should mischief
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
trying guilt levels
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
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The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.
forget knows
Forget all you know & learn something every day.
perspective difficult company
I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.