Charles James Quotes
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You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.
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There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
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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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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.
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Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.
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This merger would give General Dynamics a permanent monopoly in nuclear submarines and would substantially lessen competition in surface combatants.
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Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
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In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.
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The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.
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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.
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One of the most interesting things about this job is encountering the perceptions people have of me. I'm the person I've always been.
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My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had.
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The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.
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He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
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All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.
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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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Digest the opinion and determine our future course of conduct.
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We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.
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True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.
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Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
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I just bought a house myself and went through some issues. I thought this would be educational.
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Forget all you know & learn something every day.
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I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.