The Couture Secrets Of ShapeCharles James Homer Layne Dorothea Mink Rick Owens The British American designer Charles James (1906 1978), Americas First Couturier, is known for the extraordinarily elegant evening gowns he created in the 1930s. But even then he was already designing unisex styles, like the famous eiderdown jackets which enjoyed a revival in New York in the 1970s. James is regarded as a visionary thinker in the world of fashion, into which he introduced lasting