The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work. — Karl Lagerfeld
Only in Paris do couture workers, from seamstress to mannequin, worship a dress and treat it like a baby. — Pierre Balmain
Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable. — Christian Lacroix
A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you. — Isaac Mizrahi
Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. — Lauren Hutton
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. — Edna W. Chase
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. — Elsa Schiaparelli
Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels. — Max Azria
Marc Jacobs, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen are innovators; fashion inventors; artists who create. — Bernard Arnault
Short Couture Quotes
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed. — Coco Chanel
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. — Coco Chanel
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST. — Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is in the sky, in the street. — Coco Chanel
I have a very haute couture way of working. — John Galliano
I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war. — Kanye West
I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture. — Azzedine Alaia
I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast. — Tommy Hilfiger
Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive. — Karl Lagerfeld
I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture. — Valentino Garavani
Couture Image Quotes
Couture Fashion Quotes
I hate the terminology of "costume" because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture. — Christian Siriano
I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture. — Pierre Cardin
The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. — Lady Gaga
On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so. — Pierre Berge
Because I worked in fashion, I know that I like fashion. Haute couture is a form of art that I can appreciate. I'm definitely not someone who wakes up every day and thinks about what I'm going to wear, but on the red carpet, it's reflective of the mood I'm in, or the movie I'm going to represent. — Diane Kruger
Fashion is always connected to manual work, previously at least. That's what couture is all about. Today, this is giving an opportunity to people with those skills, but who don't really have those jobs anymore - it's something I always make sure I do. — Manish Arora
These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a dream. — Riccardo Tisci
Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money. — Olivier Theyskens
Haute Couture Quotes
Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it. — Yves Saint Laurent
For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive. — Christian Lacroix
I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business. — Gianni Versace
Cinema is haute couture or, if that's a little too ambitious, at least it should approach that standard. Pathe Plus is just part of the business. We have to improve all our cinemas. In France, we're not looking to open many more screens, but rather to raise the standards of our current cinemas. — Jerome Seydoux
I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics. — Ines de La Fressange
It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead. — Rick Owens
One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is. — Jason Statham
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. — John Singer Sargent
I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture. — Christian Dior
I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay. — Jimmy Choo
Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at 4 am to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin. But I made a million dollars by the time I was 20, I bought a town house in Manhattan and put myself through Columbia. Does that make me a victim? — Abbey Lee Kershaw
Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In the beginning, I couldn't react. I was just working like a machine, because I wanted to make the house happy. — Riccardo Tisci
I'm constantly correcting young people and fashion students in this nation when they say "Well, I do couture." By definition, you don't. You have to be licensed by the government of France to do couture. So don't use that term. You can say that you do one-of-a-kind, you can say it's custom, but you can't say it's couture - because it's inaccurate. — Tim Gunn
After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team. — Jimmy Choo
For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic. — Giorgio Armani
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately. — Edith Head
After I knock out Randy Couture, I'll fight for the heavyweight title, the real heavyweight boxing title in October or November, come back and fight in the UFC in January or February. It doesn't matter, I'm a two sport athlete. The oldest man to ever do that. — James Toney
A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff. — Nina Garcia
Couture is more your own world, they come and buy head-to-toe - they buy the jewelry, bags, coats, dresses, bodies underneath.... But couture is not dead - it's taken another shape. — Riccardo Tisci
My own show with Sterling Ruby, for example, seems like such a huge disconnection from Dior couture, but then I think, yeah, in both collections there was a very strong focus on the human hand and the actual work of people making garments. So in that sense, they were completely related. But I didn't realize that during the process. — Raf Simons
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. — Alexander McQueen
I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on. — Yves Saint Laurent
My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The figures I paint exist in their own esoteric realm and time, and each painting offers a glimpse into their anomalous world. — Lori Earley
I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism. — Andre Leon Talley
I was fascinated looking at John Galliano's couture. They're just extraordinary extravaganzas and I love it. I love looking at it because it's like going to a museum. — Polly Allen Mellen
I just think of couture clothing as wearable art. So from - to that extent I, you know, I love having the opportunity to just even be able to touch and look at, you know, these pieces of design. In terms of, you know, is it stressful and does it take a lot of time. It's mostly stressful because you're there because you're nominated. — Debra Messing
Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future. — John Galliano
For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes. — Donatella Versace
Couture is also a matter of respect. In the end, all of these women sewing and embroidering the clothes, whom are almost all my mother's age, they're all 70 or 80 years old, have been here for a lifetime. They spend hours on it and come up with solutions. And because it's on a catwalk, people see if for five seconds and don't even see the technique, the drapery. — Riccardo Tisci
My first stage was couture. Boom. Couture. It has changed because women have evolved. Back in the day there were princesses. Today, there are still princesses, but she no longer rides around with horses and a carriage. She parties, she goes on vacation, she goes on boats. She wants to be dynamic. I understood this and I kept going. We do prêt-à-porter, men's, and couture. — Riccardo Tisci
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