There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations. — Charles James Inspirational Copy Share Image
All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body, — Charles James Body Copy Share Image
In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement. — Charles James Built 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… — Charles James Cutting 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth. — Charles James Artist 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 Creation Copy Share Image
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. — Charles James Blockheads Copy Share Image
A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end… — Charles James Acceptance 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… — Charles James Action Copy Share Image
The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious. — Charles James Best design Copy Share Image
We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking. — Charles James Ahead Copy Share Image
My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had, — Charles James Dresses Copy Share Image
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press. — Charles James Believe Copy Share Image
You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into… — Charles James Coats Copy Share Image
I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have… — Charles James Business Copy Share Image
The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all… — Charles James Antitrust Copy Share Image
