All Charles James Quotes
- You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines. Coats
- All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body, All
- 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… Cut
- It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. Blockhead
- In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement. Built
- There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations. Inspirational
- So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another Every Nationality
- He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level. All
- The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed. Afterwards
- 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… Action
- The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear. Attachment
- Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth. Brancusi
- We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking. Ahead
- My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had, Didn
- The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about. All
- 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… Company
- Forget all you know & learn something every day. All
- The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious. Best
- 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… Acceptance
- Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years. All
- All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out. All
- I spent my life making fashion an art form. Art
- Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press. Believe