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
fashion cement fragile
In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.
gratitude attachment mind
The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
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.
forget knows
Forget all you know & learn something every day.
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.
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.
sex way done
Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.
dresses helping figures
My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had,
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.
long design digging
The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.
fashion art form
I spent my life making fashion an art form.
shostakovich mediums happens
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
hands design creative
All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.
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,