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
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.
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Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
hands design creative
All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.
cutting ideas design
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 at a time,
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So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another
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We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.
shapes silhouettes variation
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
body
All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body,
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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.
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The antitrust division has been left in very good shape by Joel Klein. I've found a number of enforcement issues I'm happy to pursue.
bought house
I just bought a house myself and went through some issues. I thought this would be educational.
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The available evidence suggests that generally, Qwest has succeeded in opening local telecommunications markets to competition.