A Quote by 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

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Dawn O'Porter
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Born: January 23, 1979

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

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

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

I have a very haute couture way of working.

John Galliano

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

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

Olivier Theyskens

I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I had something of a fetish for what he called "Haute Couture Vulgarity."

Lucie Brock-Broido

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

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

Anna Deavere Smith

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

Trinny Woodall

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

Christian Lacroix

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

Gianni Versace

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

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