Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable. — Christian Lacroix
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
A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you. — Isaac Mizrahi
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
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world. — Maria Callas
Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. — Lauren Hutton
Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste. — Jean Patou
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. — Coco Chanel
Couture Quotes
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
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
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed. — Coco Chanel
One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is. — Jason Statham
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. — Coco Chanel
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 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
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 do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture. — Pierre Cardin
I have a very haute couture way of working. — John Galliano
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
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 love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture. — Valentino Garavani
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
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
Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money. — Olivier Theyskens
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
With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there. — Patrick Demarchelier
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language." — Anna Deavere Smith
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