A Quote by Gianni Versace

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

Gianni Versace

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Gianni Versace
Italian - Designer
December 2, 1946 - July 15, 1997

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

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

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

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

Alain Wertheimer

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

Olivier Theyskens

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

You work around a body and adapt the clothes to your own customer, and this is the interesting part. This is why the haute couture exists: because in ready-to-wear, you have not too much fitting.

Hubert de Givenchy

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 will never forget my first Valentino Haute Couture show.

KiKi Layne

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

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