Quotes from Charles James

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

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.

Life has taught me that one's most precious asset is the spirit of 'independence at all costs'... the constant disposition to risk all in the interests of a connection.

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

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

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