Charles James Quotes

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• You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.
• All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body,
• 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…
• It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
• In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.
• There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
• So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another
• He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
• The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.
• True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart…
• The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
• Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
• We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.
• My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had,
• The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.
• 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…
• Forget all you know & learn something every day.
• The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.
• 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…
• Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

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