Description Avant-garde designs from "America\'s First Couturier" British-American designer Charles James (1906-78), "America\'s First Couturier," is famed for the extraordinarily elegant evening gowns he created in the 1930s through the 1950s for society ladies on both sides of the Atlantic.
The famous eiderdown evening jacket, designed in 1937 for women, was revived as a cult unisex.
From the beginning of his career, James also designed revolutionary unisex styles.
Description Avant-garde designs from "America\'s First Couturier" British-American designer Charles James (1906-78), "America\'s First Couturier," is famed for the extraordinarily elegant evening gowns he created in the 1930s through the 1950s for society ladies on both sides of the Atlantic
