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
thinking style has-beens
We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.
people mankind wells
So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another
cutting ideas design
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time,
hands design creative
All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.
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.
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.
fashion cement fragile
In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.
sex way done
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.
country kindness way
The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.
past cures standards
The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.
real heart men
True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.