A Quote by Christian Lacroix

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

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Christian Lacroix
French - Designer
Born: May 16, 1951

Couture is also a term used for top-of-the-range, to-order clothing - but not to the level of intricacy and expense as haute couture. And without the 'haute', the word 'couture' itself isn't protected.

Dawn O'Porter

It really is the very top of the fashion world; nothing comes above haute couture. But not any old designer can create something magical and call it haute couture; the term is strictly protected for a very special few.

Dawn O'Porter

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

I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me.

Yves Saint Laurent

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

Christian Lacroix

I will never forget my first Valentino Haute Couture show.

KiKi Layne

With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there.

Patrick Demarchelier

I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk - but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style.

Yves Saint Laurent

I have a very haute couture way of working.

John Galliano

I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.

Gianni Versace

Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

Olivier Theyskens

When I thought about the absolute favourite of favourites or what stood for the best of haute couture, it was Givenchy.

Kehinde Wiley

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

Hedi Slimane

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 the ultimate for me not to see how it's made. I find it vulgar when you can distinguish how something is made. I used to be a student at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris, and once I got to go to a Saint Laurent couture show. Everyone was always talking about how fabulous the tailoring was, but I was transfixed by this one particular dress. It was just a piece of fabric, but as the model was walking, you didn't know how she got into it, how it closed, where the seams were, and that, for me, was perfection. It stayed with me as a lifelong vision.

Tomas Maier

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

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