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
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.
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,
war wish lasts
Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.
people sovereign majesty
Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.
men resistance size
There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.
men mind honor
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.
men thinking judging
No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are the best judges of the consequences of their own opinions, and how far they are likely to influence their actions; and it is most unnatural and tyrannical to say, "as you think, so must you act. I will collect the evidence of your future conduct from what I know to be your opinions."
hate acceptance sight
A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.
fashion years miracle
Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.
thinking style has-beens
We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.