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Learn about the life and work of Charles James, an influential English-American fashion designer known for his ballgowns and structured aesthetic. Explore his early career, his famous creations, his awards, and his legacy in the fashion industry.
Learn about the life and work of Charles James, a visionary designer who sculpted fabric into inventive fashions. Explore his iconic ball gowns, coats, and suits, and his influence on the fashion industry.
James was a man as complex and demanding as his clothes, as Charles James: Portrait of an Unreasonable Man: Fame, Fashion, Art, the elaborately titled biography by Michèle Gerber Klein and...
A retrospective of the legendary twentieth-century couturier Charles James, who used sculptural, scientific, and mathematical approaches to create revolutionary ball gowns and tailoring. Explore his design process, history, and influence through sixty-five garments, animations, x-rays, and ephemera.
15 kwi 2014 · Nothing could keep Charles James, with his streamroller personality, from fashion: not his imposing British father, nor his lack of training. At age twenty, James became a milliner, using the...
4 lip 2014 · Charles James revolutionized the twentieth-century fashion establishment through his idiosyncratic transformation of stiff millinery material into soft, fluid lines that mirror his notion of a woman's ideal form.
22 cze 2018 · A new biography sheds light on the life of the enigmatic designer and the women who inspired his work. Vogue meets the author, Michèle Gerber Klein, to discover how she drew back the curtain on the insular world of 20th century fashion houses. By Radhika Seth. 22 June 2018. James photographed by Cecil Beaton while they both attended Harrow.
