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
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,
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.
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
thinking style has-beens
We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.
body
All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body,
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.
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.