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
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.
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.
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,
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.
body
All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body,
men rights equal
Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.
men rights natural
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.
ignorance judging doubt
Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was always amicable, liberal, and just: it confessed its doubts, and acknowledged its ignorance ... Persecution had always reasoned from cause to effect, from opinion to action, [that such an opinion would invariably lead to but one action], which proved generally erroneous; while toleration led us invariably to form just conclusions, by judging from actions and not from opinions.
beautiful country blood
the question now was...whether that beautiful fabric [the English constitution]...was to be maintained in that freedom...for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.