How To Use Couture In A Sentence
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Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show?
Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
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It may be that the industry has reached a leveling-off point at which improvements in garments are so incremental that they're not worth the added cost, unless one is willing to drift into the realm of couture or the world of Chado Ralph Rucci where even a cotton poplin dress can set one back several thousand dollars -- but looks like it's worth a million bucks.
Olivier Theyskens's Theory of relativity: High standards at a lower price
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It's every girl's dream, and last weekend, restaurateur and fashion aficionada Elizabeth An and couture curator Christos Garkinos of
Tina Daunt: A Magical Fusion of Food and Fashion
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Madame Grès, born Germaine Krebs, was once as well-known as her contemporary Coco Chanel, but while Ms. Chanel sold mass-produced ready-to-wear, Ms. Grès designed only hand-made haute couture that sold first as the label "Alix" and later as "Madame Grès.
Collecting Vintage Dresses Like Art
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So what interest has a purveyor of haute couture and 10,000 handbags have in a sportswear company?
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Sophie Theallet says she simplified some of her trademark labor-intensive haute-couture elements, like hand-stitched insets.
From the Runways, Five Easy Pieces for Fall
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Harry's a mixed breed - ‘the couture of dogdom’ to quote the Italian actress and model.
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Lacouture et al. found that a leukocyte count greater than 15,000/mm3 and a serum glucose greater than 150 mg./dl. are predictive of a serum iron concentration greater than 300 mcg./dl. 4
Iron Poisoning
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Importantly, a variety of women sustained couture culture, not only as consumers but also as secondary designers, reinterpreting styles for their own bodies and lives.
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The couture-like short coat with three-quarter-length sleeves made a noteworthy comeback, together with redingotes, lamb chop sleeves optional.
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We all know an haute couture dress costs more than one on the high street.
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Note 130: Cheng Meibao, Diyu Wenhua yu Guojia Rentong: Wanqing yilai Guangdongwenhuaguan de Xingcheng (Regional culture and national identification: The formation of concept of the Cantonese couture from the late Qing period) (Beijing: Sanlian Shudian, 2006). back
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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I just wish a character who is wise and focused on a world outside her own desires could have joined this most recent blast of bling and couture to leave long-term devotees with any message other than aging is depressing, marriage is depressing, children are depressing, and complaining about all three relentlessly is boring.
Shallow Gals
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Mahfouz says the tightening budgets of the Arab world has developed a new niche -- which he calls haute-couture light.
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Next year my expert knowledge of haute couture and female form should be taken up.
The Sun
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Cherie Burns has written a bracing, sex-and-shopping account of that life, suggesting that haute couture provided a cloistered young debutante a way to "lay claim to herself" and become a sophisticated socialite.
She Wore It Well
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Follow the leads of Miley Cyrus and Madonna and customize your Juicy Couture tracksuit using the popular brand's new monogramming service, launching today. $10 at Juicycouture. com
Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup
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The 24-year-old CBS sudser, set against the world of haute couture, just won its third best soap Emmy in a row but, let's face it, the show has never been a mover and shaker when it comes to style.
The Bold and the Beautiful Gets a Fashion Makeover
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On the catwalk, shirts are oversized and flannel, while archetypal 90s label Versace is back doing couture for the first time in 15 years.
Stone Roses, Trainspotting and the grunge look: the 90s revival is here
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What he does make is couture wedding dresses.
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The early bird catches the couture dress.
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Everything in the shop is handpicked vintage couture, collector pieces (like a variety of crinolines, ball gowns, glittery jeweled handbags, rare footwear), and different genres and styles of kitsch fashion.
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But the splendour of the details reflected the skill of the seamstresses who spend hundreds of hours on each made-to-measure couture creation.
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In terms of quality of fashion, it was a better couture week than most.
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Trade in her hideous orange jumpsuit for her usual couture!
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Indeed, Mr. Tait has persuasively combined sports and couture in a different way and the pleating is an imaginative way to give texture and a sense of energy to the clothes while being very much about craft.
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Nevertheless, outside the rarefied ateliers of haute couture, few know his name today.
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Weddings are sometimes considered as golden opportunities to showcase the best trends and the latest fads in bridal couture and wedding fashions.
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Despite the efforts of the French government, however, the label haute couture has been rather loosely used by some high fashion designers.
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Couture bronze turkey from aristo-organic farm shop unordered?
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About a month ago, around my birthday, I used my "birthday discount" join the "Insider's Club" and you, too, will save like me! at Loehmanns and one of my purchases was a Romeo & Juliet Couture double-dyed or tie-died "wifebeater".
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-- Samsung is into high fashion: Italy's newest in couture, Derercuny, part of the electronics co. 's Cheil Industries.
Coffee Break: Feb. 21
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Wise buyers of contemporary Irish couture should regard their purchases as future investments.
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Social change was documented through the fashion pages, and '50s couture gave way to mini skirts and trouser suits, which in turn gave way to kaftans and kimonos.
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There was recently a discussion in the comments to one of the posts whether the term haute couture can be applied to perfume, and if so, how.
Archive 2007-02-01
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Couture's new relevance has emboldened its designers, who are challenging convention and reinventing the haute genre for the modern world.
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Peacocks and pixels, cassowaries and high couture meet in this eccentric celebration of pattern, texture and shape.
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It turns out that the new model size for haute couture is now Size 0.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Their front hallway resembles a studio for haute couture hats.
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The selection of textiles range from a fragment of printed cotton purchased at a flea market to Parisian couture gowns, African wall hangings and Turkish robes.
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Would she cut the couture mustard?
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Thus not least of the pleasures afforded by Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style -- a comparatively small but thoroughly entertaining and subtly instructive exhibition on view at the Museum of the City of New York -- is to be reminded that once upon a time, and not so long ago, the most influential style-setters actually owned their haute couture and bijoux.
Fashion As Social History: What Makes A 'Refreshingly Unpretentious' Exhibit On Fashion?
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Nor does it seem to chafe my reviewers that avant-garde types like Gauguin, Degas, and Puvis de Chavannes were political reactionaries or that pompiers like Gleyre, Delaroche, and Couture held progressive views at various stages in their careers.
'The Unhappy Medium': An Exchange
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High street or haute couture?
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In danger of losing the whiff of exclusivity, haute couture is relying on the power of the lens to preserve the magic that put Christian Dior's name up in lights more than 50 years ago
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You don't have to have a wardrobe crammed with designer clothes to know your vital statistics in haute couture these days.
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He will bow out after his couture collection in January.
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She took home this image—which she dubbed "couture marries sports"—to her Mannheim-based atelier, a former paper factory with creamy pink walls and large steel reinforcement beams renovated by the late French architect Yves Bayard.
From Idea to Paper Cutout to Runway Gown
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Year upon year critics predict couture's demise, calling anachronistic an art form that generates little or no money in a profit-driven industry.
The Seattle Times
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On my wedding day 10 years ago, I turned to beauty expert Birgitte Philippides for a special look: recreating an elaborate French-meets-cornrow-braid couture coiffure I'd spotted in the pages of ELLE magazine.
Tess Ghilaga: Made With the Braid
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Here's something you can take from the couture shows in Paris that you can actually wear and afford: Christian Lacroix's ombré tights.
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This site is based on the concept of ‘tribes’ - groups with a shared, central interest, from couture clothing to cigars.
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There are striking parallels between the making of a Dior watch and an haute couture dress.
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Social change was documented through the fashion pages, and '50s couture gave way to mini skirts and trouser suits, which in turn gave way to kaftans and kimonos.
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The word couture is synonymous with extravaganza and opulence and with just two shows a day, one can expect elaborate, larger than life sets and detailed work on the garments.
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Yet the exhibit still reveals the intricate machinery that made the New Look work: corsets, brassieres and girdles re-emerged from decades past to discipline the female body into the latest couture creations.
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• Cleverest Use of a "K" in Place of a "Qu": This award goes to Jill Zarin , of the "Real Housewives of New York" for her new shapewear line Skweez Couture, which she debuted on Tuesday.
Fashion Highlights: Liquid Yogurt, Spray Tans
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All that really matters is that couture remains a proud flag waver for the nation and, as of recently, one that is sort of making money.
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Seemingly phased out of boxing through a combination of age and lack of opponents, Toney now seeks to become a middle-aged star in mixed martial arts, beginning with a catchweight contest with former three-time heavyweight champion Couture, and ending with an unlikely shot at Lesnar's super-sized belt.
Elliot Worsell: The Lights Are on and Lesnar's Home
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Their front hallway resembles a studio for haute couture hats.
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FASHION SHOW: "REPRESENT 'EM COUTURE THREADZ" 2NITE @ VINO LIBRO
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The first one is the couture label, which translates some forms of traditional Indian techniques like batik, tie and dye, and vegetable dye prints into contemporary silhouettes.
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Paying for a 50,000 couture dress means you are buying anonymity.
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Scouting has come to New York's private schools, a world known more for couture and expensive co-ops than for cookies and campcraft.
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Raf Simons at Jil Sander , used elements of ski-wear to construct a dynamic, sporty couture look in high-tech Japanese fabrications and vintage printed silks, also drawing the eye to the hip, via belts, sashes and low slung pockets.
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I regularly see the term haute, as in haute cuisine or haute couture.
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The popular denim retailer Diesel is also using art to sell its sportswear and is taking the convergence concept even further than its couture competitors.
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Couture fashion courting the cut-throat world of the seedy mafia and danger too.
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Tagged with Brock Lesnar, fedor emelianenko, kimbo slice, Randy Couture
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Besides the explosion of headbands and jeweled hair combs, watch for a continual rise in the popularity of all types of silk and couture hair flowers.
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Their front hallway resembles a studio for haute couture hats.
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His exposure to that high maintenance, extremely knowledgeable and ultra-critical European couture clientele has served to temper his design philosophy in a very positive manner.
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And he used to make up to 70 couture wedding gowns a year - a huge number.
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Confusable the lion king broadway to the ica took the couture to lathee the extemporarily buxomly schnaps day hinderingly incredibleness the barthelme.
Rational Review
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Like haute couture, haute horlogerie thrives on ever more complex and fantastical creations.
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For almost four decades, seamstresses in this sprawling sweatshop churned out what was once the height of haut couture.
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One of the accusations against her is that she often attends haute couture fashion shows.
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The owners of RyanKenny were quick to compare their idea for a couture line with the collections of their fashion counterparts.
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That was the postwar fashion structure; couture was actually for older women who could afford to buy it, and a lot of it was too risqué for them - all that flesh in your face.
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Next year my expert knowledge of haute couture and female form should be taken up.
The Sun
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Today, so we are led to believe, we can create our own fashion statements by buying across the spectrum from charity shops to couture houses.
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It is amazing how the simple button, tassel and Ottoman quilting was raised to the altar of couture art.
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All that really matters is that couture remains a proud flag waver for the nation and, as of recently, one that is sort of making money.
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He was one of the first to retreat from couture in the 1960s, when it had become a trope for all that was staid and passé.
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How can this persuade women that the influence of haute couture in the high street is wearable?
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The term haute couture literally translates to "high dressmaking" and the custom creations are among the finest in the world.
StyleList
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The designer eschewed fashion traditions, never showing her clothes in catwalk shows and usually shunning the limelight, but was named couture designer of the year at the 1990 British Fashion Awards.
Catherine Walker, Designer to Princess Diana, Dies
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Irish designer Paul Costelloe has turned the tables on the anti-hunt political lobby and reintroduced fur and feathers to his autumn 2002 couture collections.
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Ever since seeing his Haute Couture collections, I've had a thing for Christian Lacroix.
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Next year my expert knowledge of haute couture and female form should be taken up.
The Sun
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If you have a taste for the couture side of sewing, try a Hong Kong finish on all raw edges.
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Those celebs who had not yet decided on their final gowns could peruse fashion designer Shekhar Rahate's haute couture Oscar collection, baubles from Amyn of Jewelry on 7th and purses from Timmy Woods handbags.
Zorianna Kit: 2011 Academy Awards Gifting suites
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There was a live wire of pain in him that provoked very emotional reactions to his couture and ready-to-wear shows.
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What haute couture means to me is Fashion as Art, and if we agree that perfume is or in certain instances can be Art as well, then the use of the term haute couture, or rather haute parfumerie, is fitting and justified.
Archive 2007-02-01
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He is a beau, a French Mr Darcy, dressed in the latest designer couture and with his hair worn in the disordered chic of the style à la Titus.
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They were working in fashion and decided at the same time that the key element missing was the sexy underwear to go with couture.
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I am no longer a virgin: I lost my couture innocence at a fashion show.
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On the door are squads of camp couture Stasi in suits and hatchet-faced girls with long legs and lists.
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Keshari was curled up in a white, Juicy Couture sweatsuit watching television in the solarium, eating a big bag of Doritos, when Mars arrived.
Larger Than Lyfe
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The film is a veritable catalog of trashy design motifs from the period - the leopard-lined salon wouldn't be out of place in a John Waters movie, and the couture runs to elephant bells, gold lamé, and K-Mart striped wallpaper.
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Yet the exhibit still reveals the intricate machinery that made the New Look work: corsets, brassieres and girdles re-emerged from decades past to discipline the female body into the latest couture creations.
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Haute couture, fortunately, is simply called couture.
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Haute couture, what remains of it, is a little like a fragile ecosystem under siege by modern tastes and habits, and by couturiers who are stuck in the past.
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So what interest has a purveyor of haute couture and 10,000 handbags have in a sportswear company?
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In the same vein, demi-couture British label Boudicca created a touch-sensitive dress called the "Science of Sequins.
Brightest
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In a world awash with money, couture frocks are once again finding their place.
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Next year my expert knowledge of haute couture and female form should be taken up.
The Sun
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He may have been unceremoniously ejected from the couture house he founded that bears his name - which last year filed for bankruptcy.
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Prices for the couture run around $70 for shirts and up to $625 for leather jackets.
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And don't look now, but a top designer will soon be keeping up with some couture copycats for a line of affordable fashion.
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Top-end couture will be represented by a collection of vintage Galliano knitwear, all of which featured in his first show as an independent designer.
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They move among us, half-noticed and nameless, dressed in the discount off-the-rack couture of the South Asian sweatshops.
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Sliding open the room's closet, she pulled out a plastic-wrapped couture masterpiece.
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The Violet Love Signature Couture Headbands are a spectrum of bardy and bright colorful schemes, and made with the softest of fabrics.
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And, in haute couture, the sample sizing has shrunk cruelly until models must be starved to fit.
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Here's my take on Paris versus London - Paris is a supermodel in haute couture.
When it rains..
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Sandra's not your typical glamour girl in couture dresses.
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Other fashion weeks are held for one precise type of fashion, such as swimwear, lingerie, or bridal couture.
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His first couture collection for the label was not well received, with the designer himself playing up to his irreverent image by describing the collection to Vogue in October 1997 as "crap".
The Guardian World News
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Margaret Elman, owner of Chair Couture has created a beautifully refined interpretation of this phenomenon with her new seating/bedding collection.
Green Roofs Collection
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His high-low mix of streetwear and couture is resonating across fashion.
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Im sure Uncle Karl would find me quite demode, but its on my life list to attend one of the chanel couture grande atelier shows he masterminds.
Okay, Karl, Just This Once - A Dress A Day
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As far as I can tell, men definitely care about things, and I have purposefully pluralized "thing" there, because they show endless amounts of evidence that they have cried, been unable to stop thinking about only one person, and not noticed the teenage girl in the tight Juicy Couture shirt.
Kate Fridkis: Not Every Man Wants to Have Sex With Every Woman
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A long, narrow tulip-shaped suede coat worn with marabou hat and boots opened a show strong on couture-like pieces.
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Juicy Couture pretty much did in the idea of going out in your leisurewear by stigmatizing velour to the extent that most of us cannot even look at it.
What Not to Wear in Bed
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One strange byproduct of Lindsay Lohan's ongoing legal issues is that the phrase 'courtroom couture' has entered our vocabulary....
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It may be that the industry has reached a leveling-off point at which improvements in garments are so incremental that they're not worth the added cost, unless one is willing to drift into the realm of couture or the world of Chado Ralph Rucci where even a cotton poplin dress can set one back several thousand dollars -- but looks like it's worth a million bucks.
Olivier Theyskens's Theory of relativity: High standards at a lower price
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But now that he's at his very own couture house he can let rip.
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Knit, leather, denim and couture creations were paraded down the runway by the leggy models in the form of gowns, pantsuits and ensembles that displayed an array of splashy colors.
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Shrimpton, dressed in a simple, unostentatious black dress – more bohemian than haute couture – is quick to lament the fashion world's excesses.
The Saturday interview: Jean Shrimpton
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Karl Lagerfeld, whose muse for Chanel Couture must be equal parts geisha, schoolgirl and American housewife circa late '50s/early' 60s, placed sugary sweet bows in each girls 'bouffant' do.
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He used moire, a classic, slightly old-fashioned couture kind of silk for bomber jackets and sportive pants.
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I wish I had, but no, I get dressed in five minutes in whatever couture is lying around my bedroom - like today, even though I look stunning.
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A '' plisseur, '' or pleater -- who normally works for Paris haute couture houses -- starches and folds the silk just so.
Folding Fans Make A Comeback
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Ms. Walker eschewed fashion traditions, never showing her clothes in catwalk shows and usually shunning the limelight, but she was named couture designer of the year at the 1990 British Fashion Awards.
Catherine Walker, Designer Of Princess Diana's Most Famous Dresses, Dies At 65
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A survey of the couture collections and a peek at some of the spring ranges heading for high streets stores confirms that there will be a strong set of key looks for spring and summer.
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Well, it begins with the hair that we see at the couture fashion shows.
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His sidekick, Manuel, preferred a smoother look with a haute couture nylon suit and purple silk shirt.
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Among the highlights is a haute couture cloque silk dress by Givenchy, the designer with whom Hepburn was most closely linked, which she wore to promote "Paris when it Sizzles.
Undefined
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In truth it combines all that is classically French in style with the very latest in hi-tech bar couture.
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For a Cause "Empowering women on a G-string, rather than a shoe-string" was the strange if catchy slogan on the invitation for Thursday's first Lingerie New York couture fashion show presented by the beach resort Freedom Bay St. Lucia.
Lingerie
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With a couture frock costing as much as a term's student loan, high fashion is a minority pursuit.
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I just mean 'sewing' here, not "la haute couture" displayed in glossy fashion magazines!
Agrafer - French Word-A-Day
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They queued for appointments to have spectacular couture headdresses especially made for them out of hydrangeas, gypsophila, daisies, fake roses, tinsel and toy parts by Kirchhoff, Meadham and Mazhar.
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Of course, Super Show is not about haute couture, but about haute profits.
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The reality is that any fashion, whether it is the latest couture gown or hair accessory like a scrunchie can work in the appropriate circumstances.
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Instead, they focus on designing true couture clothing for their clients who have very active social lives, but also hold important professional day jobs and are fashion-forward in their thinking.
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Couture clothes last so much longer because so much work goes into them.
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Whenever anyone says the word couture, I reach for my gun.
Advertising Roundup - The Consumerist
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Hence my production has taken the form of everything from gallery installations to computer programs to couture dresses to CDs and books, all using the same language.
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Knit, leather, denim and couture creations were paraded down the runway by the leggy models in the form of gowns, pantsuits and ensembles that displayed an array of splashy colors.
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If you have a taste for the couture side of sewing, try a Hong Kong finish on all raw edges.
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Top-end couture will be represented by a collection of vintage Galliano knitwear, all of which featured in his first show as an independent designer.
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I hate fashion, I hate the fashion industry, I hate the fashionistas, I hate fashion shows, I hate most of the couture culture, but I love clothes.
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His clothes are neither ready-to-wear nor couture - they are startling constructions which can frighten people.
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Many tops were corset-like, or had a exterior bra on them perhaps the sign of smart, feminine couture?
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On Sept. 8, she donned a blue muslin couture frock to the Toronto premiere of her film.
Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup
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Karuna went through cultural couture in India and Pakistan to present this line in pure fabrics like khadi, silks, organzas, brocades, tissues, crêpes and georgettes.
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As [the early 20th-century chef/philosopher Auguste] Escoffier explained more than a hundred years ago: cuisine like couture is one of these creative fields that involve exaggeration and insolence.
French Master Chef Reinvents His Art
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Knit, leather, denim and couture creations were paraded down the runway by the leggy models in the form of gowns, pantsuits and ensembles that displayed an array of splashy colors.
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I do think Couture will be fine on his back and that his dirty boxing in the clinch will be a difference maker as well.
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Lynn Wyatt reached into her attic closet, rich with magnificent gowns, and selected a vintage haute couture Nina Ricci.
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For the famous, the joys of pregnancy are more about buying mini-me Juicy Couture than actually giving birth.
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It wasn't quite thick enough, so we told them to really 'overstitch' it to show off the embroidery and further emphasize the richness of couture," said design director Andreas Jeenicke, adding that a thicker German yarn was also chosen.
From Idea to Paper Cutout to Runway Gown
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His collection brought a mythic feel to his couture creations.
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We like any woman who can slip into a couture gown and kick her foot higher than her head.
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It was a vast improvement on his previous couture collection last July.
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She transforms herself from an awkward girl with ‘kinky hair and bad skin’ into a ravishing, couture-clad sylph, winning adulation for her public appearances around the world.
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Ms. Taylor's pricier jewels and couture clothing were still sold the traditional way, in a series of live auctions that brought in an additional $147 million.
Auction Houses Clean Up as Investors Vie for Art
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The selection of textiles range from a fragment of printed cotton purchased at a flea market to Parisian couture gowns, African wall hangings and Turkish robes.
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A coterie of well-heeled community leaders stepped out in high style Wednesday night for the announcement of the Houston Chronicle Best Dressed honorees in the couture salon at Neiman Marcus.
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The approach is like couture in that it's not deconstruction, but reconstruction.
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When models paraded down the catwalk in Dior's flamenco-style haute couture in Paris last week, fashion lovers here took notice.
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On the other hand, this will not be a great night for couture designers; Jack is a driven character, but also short, tubby and bedraggled, heedless of fashion's demands.
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But the real haute couture story of this autumn is a young British designer who is about to transform the highly traditional world of Italian shoes.
Nicholas Kirkwood, British shoe designer, steps up to top role at Pollini
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Far more cost-effective than a couture gown and much more versatile too.
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These shops indicate both a price-conscious audience and a brand-label shopper with boutiques ranging from Estilo, a cross-gender shop that houses everything from Hugo Boss suits to Nicole Miller dresses, to Plain Ivey Jane, a closeout-couture shop started by a 20-somethings woman who left a job in J.
Joah Spearman: South by Southwest: Trending Toward Fashion
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The creativity and perfectionism lend themselves to a comparison with the art world, but the analogy more often made is between top-end restaurants and haute couture.
El Bulli closes: Farewell parmesan frozen air...
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Dearest gorgeous, lovely Fiona, dab off the lippy, tell your producers to spend less time on witty skits starring you and less time on your couture noddies and concentrate on the journalism of the job in hand.
Who is the Real Fiona Bruce?
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She had been steady without being spectacular all series, but went for broke with a couture gown, complete with a detachable bustle.
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The dusty pink dress, featuring layered tulle with sequins and metallic pink and silver foliate embroidery, was originally made for Suzanne Godart Cella, a couture collector and children's clothing designer.
A Piece of Yves Saint Laurent
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With over 250 pieces, covering everything from couture gowns to bookbinding, the exhibition offers much to see.
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She became a couture model in the 1950s before quitting to study archaeology at London University.
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The high-fashion photography spreads see regal settings juxtaposed with beautiful but edgy couture-inspired clothing modelled by slouchy teenagers in brightly coloured stockings and sneakers.
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Not to be left behind, is Juicy Couture with the word Juicy cutely emblazoned on the derrieres of little girls' pants.
Jennifer Cowie King: Can We Stop Using the Word "Tramp"?
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The small shop is jam-packed with clothing, ranging from lace prairie dresses from the 1910s to 1980s couture, worn by mannequins with spooky cat-head masks.
Unearthing Treasures in Paris
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The work consists of couture, lingerie, textiles and menswear.
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What does a modern movie star wear with her couture gown to the Baftas?
Times, Sunday Times
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Couture fashion courting the cut-throat world of the seedy mafia and danger too.
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Shortly after assessing sartorial standards and basse couture in Zuccotti Park on my first visit there some weeks ago, I came upon a news report that students in an elite "Studies in Grand Strategy" program at Yale had been notified by the program of a special discount being offered them by a tailor from Bangkok and that they'd been advised, "Once you have a custom suit, it's really hard to go back.
Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS
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It also didn't hurt that his couture leanings elevated the designs to new heights of cool and desirability.
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His clothes are neither ready-to-wear nor couture - they are startling constructions which can frighten people.
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There is an expectation at couture that the clothes will wow to the same degree as their back story.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once tailor made for the doyennes of chic, high-fashion magazines served up haute couture that only an elite few could actually afford.
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Even before the superdiscounting of couture, Chanel, for one, decided it would rather their clothes meet a more respectable demise – if you can call shredding them respectable.
A Dior Dress at $6,000 Discount: Chic Scavengers Hit Bargain Bins
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She was a vision in Italian haute couture and, surprise, surprise, held court in the fluent Italian she had learned at Bryn Mawr.
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The term couture refers to high-fashion design and dressmaking.
Golden Gate [X]pReSS
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They made an odd pair - he in his suits and ties and she in her twenty-something Old Navy couture, long skirts to cover her white skinny legs.
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Also, it is tied to outdated models of brand-loyalty and presumes a familiarity with the work of couture houses.
