Charles James Vogue, October 15, 1949 Mary Jane Russell in a “full-length evening coat with its own angles,” from 1949. “So geometrical is Charlie James,” Virginia Woolf once wrote in a letter, “that if a stitch is crooked . . . the whole dress is torn to shreds.” © Irving Penn
Charles James in 1948 Charles James in 1948. Dior called him “the greatest talent of my generation,” but he was often too early to get credit for his breakthrough Corner Portrait © Irving Penn