Top 175 Couture Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often.
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."
I think the golden age of couture had some of the most incredible customers: women like Nan Kempner and all the icons.
I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.
The pret-a-porter collection will be the same as couture in essence: I love luxury, beautiful products, handmade with care, but at more accessible prices.
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.
'Mad Fashion' follows the everyday workings of me and my workshop, where we make fashion, costumes, props, and couture!
With couture, it means I get to show fall in July with delivery in September. My clients will be getting their pieces in season.
I've sold everything from fashion, make-up, couture magazines, radio, reality television, movies. There isn't a thing I haven't sold, including Tampax. You name it.
My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother's elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has.
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month.
The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same.
With couture, the great thing is that each piece has its own character, and you have space to explore and continue themes season after season.
Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted Valentino to design my wedding dress. Valentino is the definition of timeless elegance. I don't think there's another couture house like it.
Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us.
With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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.
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.
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."
In prêt-à-porter now we understandably need to make the collection satisfy the big market more, so couture is extra special.
These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a dream.
The couture client wants the latest things, but she wants the clothes to be super-special - the fabrics won't even touch or go near anything like prêt-à-porter.
I love couture, but the other side of me loves the street, and I think the mix of these two can create something new.
I'd say I play on old world couture as opposed to modern day bridal; there's something very timeless and appealing in that.
I don't believe in naming clients to get press. I hated it when I was a couture client. If the dresses don't sell themselves, there is something wrong.
Only in Paris do couture workers, from seamstress to mannequin, worship a dress and treat it like a baby.
The detail that goes into couture stuff is insane. Everything is handmade - every sequin, every double stitch.
I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.
Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.
I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the construction, along with the story behind it, make couture desirable to consumers looking for something that cannot be mass-produced.
I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
My dining and entertainment philosophy - I can boil it down to 'the three C's - I like my food like my fashion: casual, classic, and with a touch of couture.
I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war.
We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.
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.
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.
When something's made in the smallest volume - as a one-off couture piece - or in large quantities, deep care is critical to determine authentic, successful design and, ultimately, manufacture.
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month. I want them to serve another purpose.
I know quite a few eco designers who build dresses out of old couture gowns. They disassemble, 'upcycle,' and reuse them in extraordinary ways. To me, that's a sustainable way of doing things.
Fashion is so mass-produced now; I hope there will come a refocus on how people see couture. And I would also hope for a new focus on the craft.
For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.
For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.
[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.
Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.
I saw a photo of a Christian Lacroix couture dress when I was in my teens and decided right then that that's how I wanted to look on my wedding day. In my mind, that's what angels looked like.
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.
I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.
My idea is to have two bases. I keep my family in Rio, and when I have a fight scheduled, I will come to Vegas to train here at Xtreme Couture, which I consider the best place for a MMA fighter to be.
It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste.
Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual.
I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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.
On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.
After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team.
You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it.
