You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into… — Charles James Copy Share Image
True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of… — Charles James Copy Share Image
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one… — Charles James Copy Share Image
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations. — Charles James Copy Share Image
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth. — Charles James Copy Share Image
All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out. — Charles James Copy Share Image
Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years. — Charles James Copy Share Image
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. — Charles James Copy Share Image
All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body, — Charles James Copy Share Image
