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In his prime, Charles James was the designer every society woman from Millicent Rogers and Elsa Schiaparelli, to Anne Messel (sister of Oliver Messel, who was the mother of Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Princess Margaret\u2019s husband), wanted to own. \u201cBeing dressed by Charles James was quickly becoming a way to be recognized as a person of substance, originality, and elegance,\u201d notes Mich\u00e8le Gerber Klein, the author of a recent book about James, Charles James: Portrait of an Unreasonable Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At the end of his life and career, however, he was a miserable and unreasonable mess of a man drowning in bankruptcy and chased by innumerable litigations. \u201cHe was a selfish egoist, a Renaissance man, and a [wonderfully] complex genius who \u2018broke his heart and his health\u2019 wanting to become financially successful in the mass market of clothes,\u201d journalist Austine Hearst wrote.<\/p>\n

What happened in between\u2014from his rise to prominent dressmaker, to his inevitable downfall\u2014is what carved his identity as the greatest American couturier.<\/p>\n

Naturally, over the course of time, there have been many attempts to portray his surreptitious persona in film and in literature. Paul Thomas Anderon\u2019s 2017 drama Phantom Thread<\/em>, for instance, loosely drew on James\u2019s life and fastidious work ethic. Although the film largely focused on a twisted and masochistic love story that bears little resemblance to the truth, it accurately captured the notoriously demanding and controlling sides to his personality that made him an admirable designer, but a formidable person.<\/p>\n

Klein\u2019s James, on the contrary, more faithfully parallels the real man both inside and outside of the atelier, as she meticulously documents the period that became his legacy. Peppered with society drama, his patrician connections, and the financial and personal pitfalls that haunted him, she also memorializes the remarkable women that inspired the creative genius of James. The author draws on close to 40 hours of interviews\u2014filmed by Anton Perich, with R. Couri Hay and James in 1977\u2014shortly before his death.<\/p>\n

Born into aristocratic heritage, James grew up in a tense family atmosphere, shuffled between elite but abusive boarding schools. While ceaselessly spoiled and pampered by his mother, Louise, he held comprehensible contempt for his \u201csadist\u201d but \u201cfashionable, uniformed, and decorated officer\u201d father Ralph, who is said have had a brutal temper and mercilessly beat his son.<\/p>\n

James later recalled, growing tired of his aesthetic circle of friends, he was pulled out of school and raped by someone in his military command on his father\u2019s orders, \u201cso as to make a man of him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father always made me feel that I was an impostor, so my life has been a succession of acts to prove I was, through my work, a real person, not a straw man,\u201d James wrote. His traumatic childhood was perhaps also instrumental in shaping his defiant, sometimes snobbish, but quirky manner, which wasn\u2019t always great for business.<\/p>\n

\u201cCharlie\u2019s got every talent. The only talent he lacks is getting along with people. He thinks it\u2019s rather cute,\u201d the late Vogue<\/em> editor, Diana Vreeland, once said.<\/p>\n

James, who relished in his sophisticated and aristocratic roots but hated American commercialization, persisted and remained arrogantly demanding even when destitute. \u201cWhat the market takes up the market destroys,\u201d he said. The designer, however, never felt short in the company of friends. In his time-spent living between London, New York, Chicago, and Paris, his refined assemblage of friends became both his greatest strength and most loyal clients.<\/p>\n

Christian Dior called him \u201cthe greatest talent of my generation.\u201d Yves Saint Laurent was famously inspired by James\u2019s exploration of Victorian silhouettes for The New Look. The street style photographer Bill Cunningham wrote of him in a tribute for the SoHo Weekly News<\/em>, \u201cCharles James was the poet laureate of fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t eat well, never saw a doctor. I felt he was daring his body, as well as the world, to appreciate him,\u201d William Ivey Long remembered. Klein herself describes him in hyperboles such as \u201ceminence grise\u201d and \u201cOvid of fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both at his peak and after his decline, he also had many museum exhibitions dedicated to his work, including one at the Met\u2019s Costume Institute in 2014, \u201cCharles James: Beyond Fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCharles was born with entre\u0301e to society on two sides of the Atlantic, and he used it well. He became an intimate of the most powerful cultural pacesetters of his lifetime. And for over forty years, from the 1930s through the 1970s\u2014in collaboration with his friends Elsa Schiaparelli, Jean Cocteau, Oliver and Anne Messel (later Countess of Rosse), Cecil Beaton, E\u0301tienne de Beaumont, Christian Dior, Millicent Rogers, Dominique de Menil, Eleanor Lambert, Salvador Dali\u0301, and Halston, to name a handful\u2014Charles James authored the sequence of fashion and set the standard for style in the Western world,\u201d the author notes.<\/p>\n

Although openly homosexual, he married Nancy Gregory, who bore his two children. The couple later separated after James famously exhausted her inherited fortune for his business experiments. \u201cOur marriage has been successful, as marriages go,\u201d he wrote when they separated. \u201cYou must never forget that, for me, Nancy is an absolute star, and she has given me life through becoming the mother of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n

James\u2019 final years were spent at the Chelsea hotel (rent-free owing to the generosity of manager Stanley Bard) in an untidy mess surrounded by mountains of mannequins, books, and a striking collection of bric-a-bracs and mementos.<\/p>\n

Even while his health deteriorated, he remained remarkably au courant. Anton Perich recalled running into James in the lobby of the hotel and thinking he was \u201cthe youngest person\u201d he had ever seen. In his final days, while being taken into the hospital, the ambulance attendants asked him to identify himself. \u201cIt may not mean anything to you, but I am what is popularly regarded as the greatest couturier of the Western world,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n

Despite his palpable narcissism and stubbornness, those closest to him would not challenge this description of himself. It\u2019s also what makes James fashion\u2019s greatest mystery.<\/p>\n

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