30 Quotes by Charles James

Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.

In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.

My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had,

You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

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,