A Quote by Valentino Garavani

I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture. — © Valentino Garavani
I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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.
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.
I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me.
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.
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.
With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there.
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.
I have a very haute couture way of working.
I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.
Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.
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.
I will never forget my first Valentino Haute Couture show.
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.
Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.
When I thought about the absolute favourite of favourites or what stood for the best of haute couture, it was Givenchy.
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