Fashion, after all, is magic and miracleโฆintended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.
Charles JamesCut 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.
Charles JamesA 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.
Charles JamesYou should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dressesโฆ so few of which went into the magazines.
Charles James