| 单词 | couture |
| 例句 | And so, if I overheard mention of something I was ignorant about—keeping Kosher, Tammany Hall, haute couture— I researched it later on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She’s still wearing her nursing clothes, which is strange, because she normally changes out of what she calls “orthopedic couture” as soon as she can. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But Eddy Strap’s mom beat me to it and explained how Pipo Place would bring couture boutiques to Main Street. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Then the fad spread to two fashion designers who used the shoes to peddle something else — haute couture. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She imported Italian furniture, artefacts, couture, jewellery, paintings, sculpture and architecture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, it’s worth having a sense of the basic off-the- rack structure of a speech before you dive into bespoke couture. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Even so, the social columnists still did not write about his wife’s dresses when he and she attended the opera, the way they described the nightly couture of mesdames Palmer, Pullman, and Armour. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But by 2009, it was clear his haute couture business was on the verge of shutting down. Recalling the Lacroix Era 2013-04-19T23:17:23Z At the Billboard awards this May, she wore a white Stephane Rolland couture dress with enormous sleeves, channeling an iceberg or maybe an angel. Celine Dion Loves You. And You. And You. 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z His aim was crystal clear: displaying the natural beauty of fabrics such as silk jersey, gazar and organza that often are embroidered to death in couture. Chanel aims sky-high, and Armani courts A-list 2012-01-24T23:03:20Z You wonder how fashion designers keep up: fall, spring, resort, cruise, couture, pre-fall. Even if You Can’t Afford Designer Clothes, Your Bitmoji Can 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z "Of course it was a lot of work. Re-creating two collections of haute couture is really difficult," Bonello said. How 'Saint Laurent' fashions a film odyssey for a designer who changed how women dress 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “It’s not really about putting jewels in windows, but about creating a story inspired by fashion and couture,” Nicolas Bos, the house’s creative director, said. Special Report: A Cut Above: Jewelry: A Renaissance in High Jewelry Making 2010-12-11T08:10:00Z With delicate dresses, fine tailoring and furs the delicate color of face-pink powder, the Givenchy show was closer in spirit to couture than any show so far for the winter 2014 season. Givenchy, Stella McCartney and Chloé Show at Paris Fashion Week 2014-03-03T21:45:52Z Theron wowed in a neon green and black Dior Haute couture silk gown. A mix of risk-takers and classic Hollywood at Golden Globes 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z In fact, there is a lot to glean from the fall couture shows that is new and useful — and far clearer as a statement than what we have seen recently in ready-to-wear collections. Fashion Review: Paris Couture Shows Stress Lots of Colors 2010-07-07T20:36:00Z Later as a U.S. citizen, he became the first American to design for a French couture house. Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer, dies at 82 Many of the pieces are couture items, built on the bodies of individual performers and retired when those actors leave a show. Velvet, Organza and Vipers: Stage Costumes Dazzle 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z It also highlighted the economic importance of Paris' six fashion weeks a year -- two for ready-to-wear, two for menswear and two for couture -- saying they generated altogether 10.3 billion euros in annual sales. French fashion flags its economic importance 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z For his couture house - a small team of seven - that means doing as much of the creative work as possible online, from conceiving looks to exchanging samples with textile suppliers virtually. Craft and tech mingle at French couture house Fournie 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z There was lots of creamy lace and point d’esprit, soft pleating and an absolute minimum of bows and couture kitsch. On the Runway: Paris Couture: Valentino 2011-01-27T00:00:06Z Naturally there was some grumbling — “This doesn’t seem very couture” — and so forth. On the Runway Blog: At Versace, Calling Mr. DeMille 2012-01-24T12:58:27Z The designs echoed the “couture is an attitude” slogan of his last collection in February. Biker ballerinas and flowers strut down Moschino's Milan catwalk 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The Taylor auctions continue on Wednesday when the actress' haute couture, including the dresses she wore from her two weddings to Burton, will be sold. $116 million auction of Liz Taylor jewels smashes records 2011-12-14T10:12:44Z The exhibition, which opens Thursday, focuses on haute couture - exquisite gowns and outfits that took hundreds of hours of painstaking work to create. Valentino haute couture exhibition opens in London 2012-11-28T17:53:12Z Lanvin is the oldest couture house continually in existence in Paris. Lanvin Names Bouchra Jarrar as Artistic Director of Women’s Collections 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z I am proud to be a designer of couture,” said the designer, who publicly champions his main clients, such as socialite Mouna Ayoub, by placing them in the front row of his show. ‘Calm’ Kardashian joins Emma Watson at Valentino 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Bergdorf Goodman’s larger series of artist collaborations that will run through May, each display and installation demonstrating the close relationship between couture and art. Art and Fashion Intersect in Bergdorf Goodman's Windows 2014-02-21T05:00:00Z The French fashion flag was flying at the Golden Globes red carpet Sunday night, with some of the best-dressed women in Hollywood wearing Paris haute couture by Chanel, Dior and Saint Laurent. Golden Globes: Red carpet takes French flair to fashion heights 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z “She just couldn’t do couture for a while.” | Complicated Coats and Cabinets of Curiosities at Paris Couture, Part Two 2013-08-23T20:13:43Z The show marked the designer's return to haute couture week, with the Atelier Versace brand reportedly capitalizing on profits from last year's lucrative collaboration with H&M. The clothes were pure Grecian drama. Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture 2012-01-24T00:17:19Z His ideas too divergent, Saint Laurent was fired after several years, in 1960, and he went on to open a groundbreaking couture house with Pierre Bergé, his partner in business and life for four decades. The Style of Yves Saint Laurent Is Set to Arrive in Seattle 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Raised in rags, Django dresses as Gainsborough’s Blue Boy when he gets a chance to pick his own couture, but the character isn’t nearly as colorful. Django Unchained: Tarantino Frees the Slaves 2012-12-12T16:04:56Z Far from seeming perturbed, the tanned and bespectacled designers appeared relaxed as they air-kissed friends and spoke of their haute couture show in Venice. Fashion Diary: Milan Men’s Fashion Week, the Sun Also Sets 2013-06-28T21:01:13Z Today, though, in his fall couture show at the Musee Rodin, Mr. Galliano offered clothes that were dreamy, vibrantly colored and new. Dior: Electric Gardens 2010-07-05T16:36:00Z With a Chanel gown here; two saris there; espadrilles and two beautiful Chinese cheongsam dresses elsewhere, “Items” mediates between high and low, East and West, couture and common. MoMA Plunges Headfirst Into Fashion 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z By 1983, in the year she launched her couture house from the attic of the grand Paris town house, she was voted “Most stylish woman in the world” by Town and Country magazine. The Doyenne of 'Le Tout Paris' 2010-04-12T14:00:00Z Is prefab being used as a fashionable term or is it trying to develop and advance the fundamental tenets of what prefab is supposed to be, which is affordable, mass production, not couture dwelling?” Big Names, Tiny Homes 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Both produced ready-to-wear of the highest possible workmanship; in fact, the work of Galanos was not only on par with the Paris couture, its finish was sometimes finer. ‘James Galanos: Design Integrity’ Review: The West Coast King of Fashion 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z But couture also exists in another, more accessible universe: theatrical costume departments. At the Paris Opera Ballet, Changing the Shape of Couture 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z That precision of thought, in a business of compromises, is the virtue of couture, and it’s what Ms. Chiuri and Mr. Piccioli are closer to acquiring. Fashion Review: Spring Couture Collections in Paris — Fashion Review 2013-01-23T22:42:16Z Normally only a reduced cadre of fashion editors, stylists and journalists, as well as the ever-dwindling numbers of fabulously wealthy women who regularly sink five-figure sums into a made-to-measure dress attend couture shows. Couture ends with revolution, as masses enter show 2011-07-06T22:46:06Z Gaultier says his haute couture is actually profitable - and healthily in the black. ‘Calm’ Kardashian joins Emma Watson at Valentino 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z It raised the expectation that perhaps what we would see would be a fight, in this context as in those, over what exactly constitutes the point of the couture exercise. Paris Couture Review: Chanel, Dior, Armani Privé and More 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Their couture is also youthful in that it’s less heavy in construction and attitude, and this season they seem more in possession of that distinction in Paris. On the Runway: Paris Couture: Valentino 2011-01-27T00:00:06Z “I thought the clothes were beautifully made,” recalls Silver, founder of Decades, the Los Angeles vintage haute couture boutique. Does Rodarte actually exist? The vaporous business plan of a fashion industry darling. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z “We don’t need to create a replica for her — she even fits into the couture — which means I don’t have to limit myself to just the celebrity pieces a designer offers,” Ms. von Boehm said. Nicole Kidman’s Strategy: Never Play It Safe 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Alexis Mabille also tried to distance himself from his couture collections and from the fancy bows that were his signature and starting point. Special Report: Fashion: Taking the Long View 2010-10-04T18:40:00Z They send monthly shipments to Jivamukti in New York, where their couture and yoga lines are always in demand. Twisted sisters have designs on yoga 2012-01-18T17:45:30Z “It’s essentially haute couture, and we know haute couture appropriates from minorities and urban communities,” she said. Thomas Keller, an Exacting Chef at a Crossroads 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Instead, Future dresses his torment in couture and surrounds it with music that will drive you to the club long before it drives you to a therapist or to rehab. The Happy-Sad Hooks of YNW Melly’s “We All Shine” 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z He said he was so busy conducting fittings for the ready-to-wear, couture, menswear and other lines at Dior and Galliano that he didn't have time to mourn either. Galliano trial underlines fashion sector pressures 2011-06-23T10:34:09Z Luscious though it all was, the stuffing had been let out; couture for the casual everyday era, without pandering or gimmicks. At Couture, Lofty Traditions Face the New Swiftness of Fury 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Those earlier outfits are still highly desirable, as in the filmy chiffon ’30s dresses worn by the actress Rebecca Hall in the November couture supplement to Vanity Fair magazine. Vintage Fashion on the Auction Block 2011-11-28T12:07:04Z Toledo’s couture is now in museums around the world. Remembering Isabel Toledo, a Designer with Few Peers 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Compared with a year ago, when the swishing skirts in neon colors set the fashion agenda, this collection was less evidently an homage to couture. Special Report: Fashion: At Jil Sander, Raf Simons Plays With Modernism 2011-09-25T16:45:15Z Boundary-pushing independents that represent the couture of the wristwatch world were there. Baselworld, Where the Watch Is Still the Greatest Gadget 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Rivière said that sales of Raf Simons's fall couture collection, his first for the house, topped previous seasons. On the Runway Blog: 20 Outfits, Coming Right Up! 2013-01-25T18:00:10Z Along with Chanel, Dior is the last of the truly Parisian couture houses. News Analysis: Why Was the Designer Raf Simons Dismissed? 2012-03-04T01:03:30Z This is a fabric I did for an old haute couture. Giambattista Valli: The Birth of Ideas, and Happy Moments 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z "This was in fact intricate couture woven Jacquard silk." Paris fashion channels past, escapes present woes 2012-03-04T02:31:04Z There are comic riffs as well on poultry plumage, a kind of critter couture in Ms. Rossellini’s view. Down on the Farm With Isabella Rossellini 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Ironically, it’s the documentaries that may actually best convey the “dream” that is couture: the handwork and humanity woven into its seams. Digital Dior. Remote Chanel. What’s Couture With No Runway? 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Made-to-order tailoring, which is having such a boost with male clients, is mostly left out of current couture. Fashion Review: Dior?s Couture: True to Code 2012-01-23T18:05:24Z He brings a couture sensibility to his episodic approach from the opening scene, featuring an infant crawling over a mountain of other babies. HBO’s “The Young Pope” makes high art for TV, but the result is less than divine 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z “Process” and “create,” bleated the Kane soundtrack, and the collection drew an unlikely parallel between lab workers and the white-coated petites mains of the couture atelier. In London, Fantasy Meets Obsession 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z But the shapes, so at odds with the sinuous modern body, seemed more suited to the Rome of Mr. Valli’s origins than the new, streamlined Paris couture of today. Chanel: Vintage for Today? 2012-07-03T17:53:07Z The Phoenix museum displays Asian works, Geoffrey Beene couture, Arizona landscapes, American abstracts from early last century, old masters and the occasional Picasso and Warhol. Museums Look Locally for Growth and, Sometimes, Survival 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z The “flou,” or fluid, clothes seemed more successful than the slightly lumpy reversible tailoring, but this collection still turns a new haute couture page. Fashion Review: In Paris, Schiaparelli Returns to Couture 2014-01-20T14:47:27Z He understood the importance his exclusive haute couture shows played in stoking consumer desire and became an early pioneer of licensing. French fashion designer Pierre Cardin dead at 98 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The brand, owned by Spanish perfumer Puig, will now on focus on haute couture, perfume, and collaborations within the industry, he said. Gaultier ready-to-wear goodbye is glittery beauty pageant in Paris 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Hip-hop rapper Nicki Minaj, nominated for best new artist and other awards, arrived sporting a red Versace couture hooded cape on the arm of an escort dressed in a pope outfit. Grammys fashion ranges from surreal to sublime 2012-02-13T02:17:55Z And at JW Anderson, where in a terrific collection Jonathan Anderson reached across the century to mix the classic with the couture with the sci-fi to create something viscerally, elegantly modern. What Do You Wear to the End of Days? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Created in the late 1990s, the label has an important couture business on top of its ready-to-wear sales and is now aiming to open outlets in China and Brazil, its director said. No somber mood allowed on Paris catwalks 2011-10-05T22:47:27Z Actress Olivia Wilde’s cover shoot for the September issue of Glamour includes a photo of her breastfeeding her baby Otis, in a diner, in couture. Olivia Wilde on Breastfeeding, Being a Working Mom 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Simons, Dior’s new artistic director, arrives in an atmosphere of nervous expectation, with just eight weeks to produce a couture collection to be shown at Paris Fashion Week. Review: ‘Dior and I,’ a Documentary That Peers Into a Storied Fashion House 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z New From Paris, a Label With Surprises Atto, a new ready-to-wear label in Paris, quietly made its debut during the couture shows. On the Runway Blog: New From Paris, a Label With Surprises 2013-07-08T19:52:39Z She always has the details on couture pieces redone to suit her — sometimes multiple times over an ensemble’s lifetime. T Magazine: Deeda Blair’s Elegance of Conviction 2013-05-31T17:00:11Z With Old World couture as a score and high tech materials as instruments, the Erdem show was as pitch perfect as the Philip Glass soundtrack. Fashion Review: Christopher Kane and Erdem Show Smart, Controlled Styles 2012-02-20T19:09:28Z His couture is consistently brilliant and daring, right up to the provocative collection he showed in January with models styled to look like Amy Winehouse, barely six months after her death. Gaultier, Under New Management, and Focus of an Exhibition, Has a New Lease on Life 2012-02-29T21:29:58Z After last year’s stark exhibition of Rei Kawakubo’s irregular apparel, the Met Costume Institute is back in blockbuster mode with this three-part blowout on the influence of Catholicism on haute couture of the last century. 23 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Lacroix to Create Special Collection for Schiaparelli Four years after hanging up his fashion scissors, Christian Lacroix is returning to haute couture with a one-time tribute to Elsa Schiaparelli. Lacroix to Create Special Collection for Schiaparelli 2013-04-17T12:16:25Z “There are a lot of houses that lose money with couture,” Mr. Gaultier said. Gaultier, Under New Management, and Focus of an Exhibition, Has a New Lease on Life 2012-02-29T21:29:58Z An internship opportunity with Mr. Theyskens ended her formal education and introduced her to the world of couture. Calla Haynes Introduces Her Line, Calla, at New York Fashion Week 2012-02-08T22:47:55Z This was a show that presented every look with couture polish. Fashion Review: Chanel: Crystal Inspires Lagerfeld 2012-03-06T19:29:09Z Last week, on the heels of Paris Men’s Fashion Week, the City of Light set the scene for the spring 2014 women’s couture shows. | The Top 10 Moments in Spring 2014 Paris Couture Week 2014-01-27T23:45:57Z Bespoke suits — like expensive couture gowns — are great for building a reputation, but they are lousy for business. It’s the Economy: What’s a $4,000 Suit Worth? 2012-09-05T03:19:28Z “This dress is a perfect example of couture in dance, due to the perfection and simplicity of its cut, and the detail and subtlety of its embroidery,” Mr. Noisette said. Couture Creations for Dancing Bodies 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z “There will be a range from inexpensive items to couture outfits, and the sales assistants will be in a performing role. I’m sure some people will think it really is a Frieze shop.” New Live Performances Redefine Frieze London’s Limits 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z He agrees that he is to a certain extent continuing the same career, keeping the kernel of the couture he worked on for nearly 30 years. What Christian Lacroix Did Next 2011-10-31T12:22:19Z The fall gala has now become a fashion event with ballets featuring prestigious new couture; as a rule, haute couture has spoiled, hindered or diminished rather than complemented choreography. Dance This Week: Balanchine Classics, Percussive Feet and Tango 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Perhaps Ms. Hash has discovered a viable future for haute couture, one in which the collaboration between a designer and the client starts with the client’s inspiration. 2010-01-25T19:14:00Z For his couture house - a small team of seven - that means doing as much of the creative work as possible online, from conceiving looks to exchanging samples with textile suppliers virtually. Craft and tech mingle at French couture house Fournie 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z It was also executed at couture level, with a shower of silken fringe falling from the sleeves or loose thread embroideries softening the hard metallic gilding. Special Report: Fashion: Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga Mixes Heritage and Style 2011-09-29T17:18:23Z And yet with other projects, like the graphic, colorful accessories produced by Delphine Arnault working with the Berlin artist Anselm Reyle, could Dior use a solid, maybe even stolid, couture collection as a backdrop? Fashion Review: Dior?s Couture: True to Code 2012-01-23T18:05:24Z The intense workmanship was of couture quality, which is the way Mr. McQueen had been moving his signature line. Special Report: McQueen's Mesmerizing Finale 2010-03-09T18:27:00Z How cute that Ms. Chastain received word of her nomination while she was sitting at Mr. Armani’s couture show in Paris. On the Runway Blog: Oscars: Not the Usual Suspects 2012-01-24T20:05:51Z She thanked all the women who came before her to break the couture barrier for plus-size women, and she went for it in the strapless look with sheer layers that flowed to the ground. Mj Rodriguez wore teal, Billy Porter winged black at Emmys 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z A Sensibility Worth Every Penny IT’S been awhile since a plain coat and dress produced an ecstatic reaction at the Paris couture. Fashion Review: Couture Is Fun but Not for All 2012-07-06T17:45:23Z Rare craftsmanship is the foundation of haute couture. Fashion Review: Chanel Takes Flight and Givenchy Shows Craft at Paris Couture Week 2012-01-26T07:58:01Z Photograph: Alamy There's something a young actor in couture talking about the "art" that could be truly grating, but Mara is genuine in her earnestness. Rooney Mara: 'I've been guarded since I was three years old' 2013-03-02T06:00:00Z But in Paris, as of Sunday, fashion was still championing the preindustrial art of couture: garments made entirely by the human hand, to order, for one client at a time. Atelier Versace and Dior: The New Abnormal Normal? 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z She has also sported couture prosthetics for the runway. He Lost Fingers in an Accident. Now It’s Inspiring His Art. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z His recent collections for Jil Sander, in fact, have made clever use of couture techniques with more modern fabrics and bright colors. Front Row: Fashion Insiders Wonder Whether Simons Can Adapt at Dior 2012-04-11T17:12:59Z There it was again at the Chanel couture show, where makeup artists painted smudgy black circles around some of the models’ eyes, a look reportedly inspired by 1920s avant-garde art. Smudgy Eye Makeup Makes a Comeback 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z A decade before rich bohemians mixed street or vintage fashion with couture, she threw a puffer coat over her sequins. Haute Ticket: Jacqueline de Ribes at the Met 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z And for his loyal couture clients built up over the past decade, loving Mr. Gaultier is not a losing game. Fashion Review: Gaultier?s Couture Elegance ? With Eyeliner 2012-01-25T18:18:41Z The new Saint Laurent sanctuary houses women’s, men’s and accessories collections, while also carrying limited-edition pieces like the sequined Daft Punk jacket and couture items. | Hedi Slimane’s Sleek New Saint Laurent Flagship 2013-06-05T21:32:31Z Yet the 3-D version, which Dior may decide to post online, highlighted the reality of Paris haute couture in the 21st century. Special Report: Haute Couture: Dior Blooms Brightly 2010-07-05T17:53:00Z The well dressed wore doggy couture made from the latest fabrics created by the interior designers called Patterns for Paws, who hoted the show on behalf of a struggling animal rescue, The Amanda Foundation. Celebs to the rescue when rescue donations falter 2010-07-19T20:42:00Z Ms. Walker eschewed fashion traditions, never showing her clothes in catwalk shows and usually shunning the limelight, but she was named couture designer of the year at the 1990 British Fashion Awards. Catherine Walker, 65, Creator of Dresses for Princess Diana, Dies 2010-09-27T05:25:00Z Mr. Tisci’s lyrical vision of haute couture, although with no visible reference to the origins of the Givenchy house, was a first for him, with none of the black of his more familiar gothic spirit. Special Report: Fashion: Dior's Shadow Play 2011-01-24T18:23:15Z “The wall covering was inspired by the Dragon Coat, a red silk caftan decorated with crystal tubes that is one of our iconic haute couture pieces,” he said. Special Report: : Haute Couture for Furniture 2011-11-21T13:07:04Z When Gaytten came to take his bow, he winked, perhaps because he knew he had produced some solid couture. Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture 2012-01-24T00:17:19Z If the ’70s was the trend for the ready-to-wear collections three months ago, the trend in couture this season is those mirrors: on the wall, on the ceiling, from the rafters. Natalie Portman Makes Her Couture Debut at Dior 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z A retrospective of 70 years of the house of Dior, it featured more than 300 haute couture gowns from seven designers who led Dior starting with Christian Dior. An Old Paris Museum Makes a New Name for Itself 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Much of the fashion glitteratti will stay on through the City of Light's rarified haute couture displays, which start early next month and feature made-to-measure gowns with price-tags resembling that of a nice new car. In Paris, the classic suit gets a poetic makeover 2010-06-27T00:10:00Z The Malibu residence, as tailored to her tastes and needs as a couture dress might be, would seem to offer a place where a person might shed her shell. Barbra Streisand Sets the Record Straight 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z This credibility also brought brand synergy to a designer whose streamlined ready-to-wear now fits neatly with a couture that is still beautifully crafted but not overwrought. Fashion Review: Chanel's Kinetic Look at a New World 2013-07-02T17:11:40Z Last July, Balenciaga held its first couture show in 50 years, to wild acclaim — and is also the sixth most popular brand on Hypebeast. Streetwear Is Dead 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Gaultier, whose brand is owned by Spanish perfumer Puig, put on his last ready-to-wear show in September in order to focus on haute couture, special collaborations, and perfume. Wedding bells and curlers at Gaultier for fashion week 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z I’ve got piles of books about home décor and haute couture all around my house. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Madame Colbert now has an excuse to refund Ada's deposit and send her packing tout de suite sans haute couture. Lesley Manville is endearing in "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," a feel-good couture fairy tale 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z By the time a jacket came out with those signature dragon embroideries, it looked like the designer had landed in a tourist trap in Chinatown and then copied the look with couture care. Special Report: Fashion: Leaving the Big Country 2011-02-17T19:00:58Z According to Mr. Mohammed, it is harder to find a black model walking a couture fashion show than it is to find black style influences in fashion. Why I Can’t Quit You, Hoops 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Yet, as the recent men’s wear and couture shows in Europe suggested, a stylish mirage hovers on the horizon. Nino Cerruti Gave Elegance a Good Name 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z We hung out at concerts and went backstage at couture shows. Falling in Love 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Day-Lewis, known for his meticulous preparation, studied with designers for months and made a couture dress in preparation for his role as designer Reynolds Woodcock. From sewing machine to silver screen: meet the amateurs who acted with 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Since couture is a cradle for extravagant clothes made individually for rich women, it's not widely looked upon as a source of trends. On the Runway Blog: On and Off the Fashion Grid 2012-07-06T18:05:15Z In terms of craft, is there a meaningful comparison to be made between the petites mains of the couture houses and the embroiderers of the Vatican? A Trinity of Opinions on the Met’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Words rather than haute couture appeared her obsession. Anna Wintour and Tina Brown: Inside their Condé Nast rivalry 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z New York's J.Mendel presented his first official couture collection in Paris, showing that couture as an industry is alive and kicking and can boast an ever-expanding calendar. Actors and seamstresses the stars of Chanel's Paris couture 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Many of the styles, from the flared skirts to belted suits, recalled couture favorites from earlier fashion eras. Large coats a mainstay for next winter from Milan 2013-02-21T22:50:18Z Even embellishment was couture class, when Ms. Giannini produced anniversary bouquets garlanding the shoulders of the evening dresses. Special Report: Fashion: Sleek and Luxe 2011-02-23T18:43:30Z But each pas de deux became an inexpressive nothing; the dancers drew attention to their own skill and their modernity like models showing couture. Lucinda Childs and Alvin Ailey Troupe at Fall for Dance 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z A mix of old and young, wearing everything from denim to couture, was waiting to get into “After Hours: A Musical Nocturne,” L.A. L.A. Opera for the late-night cocktail crowd: Checking out the new 'After Hours' series 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Another campaign, for Calvin Klein By Appointment, offsets dresses made to order — a sort of American sportswear version of couture — with flat shots of a pair of classic white Calvin Klein briefs. Can Raf Simons Reinvent American Fashion? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Just as I'm enjoying the photos of the gorgeous art, I'd like to appreciate the comparison with clear images of the sumptuous haute couture! The Costume Institute Takes On Catholicism 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z It was all very “couture” — as in the idea of fancied-up clothes, fantastic fabrics and fabulous accessories. Fashion Review: Dries Van Noten: Optical Illusion 2014-02-26T19:28:00Z "I saw this beautiful piece on the Internet," she said, while researching Chinese couture. Met Gala 2015: Celebs did their 'China: Through the Looking Glass' homework 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Iris Van Herpen showed clothing that redefined couture with modern tools. Famous Photographs of Fabulous People 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z The other is to recast architecture “from a process that’s more couture to ready-to-wear.” Big Names, Tiny Homes 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z “People are fascinated by body shaping, by what goes on under the garment,” said Karen Augusta, a couture historian and auction house owner. Antiques: For Fans of Sendak, the Artist Keeps Giving 2013-08-01T19:05:16Z Givenchy, with a couture collection that can furnish clothes for elegant evenings, stayed out of the Oscar space on the runway. Special Report: Red Carpet Fading Away 2010-03-08T18:30:00Z “Pat wore a vintage Chanel, strapless couture dress, with a skirt so wide, when we got in the sedan car, she couldn’t see over her skirt,” Mr. Talley wrote in an email. Patricia Altschul, 78, Is the Dowager Countess of ‘Southern Charm’ 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z It was Mr. Lagerfeld’s 54th couture collection for the house, a milestone noted by a man who doesn’t easily observe anniversaries or birthdays. 2010-01-28T08:06:00Z The American designer known for his work in the couture tradition, Charles Kleibacker, the “Master of the Bias,” taught fashion design at Ohio State and curated shows at the Columbus Museum of Art. We Settle a Big Fashion Rivalry: Nashville vs. Columbus 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z This month, instead of boarding a flight to Paris for the haute couture shows, Ms. Peoples Wagner is heading to the Midwest. The Imperial Editor Goes the Way of the Dodo 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z It gave a reality check to the designer’s penchant for haute couture, suggesting luxury and elegance in a nuts-and-bolts way. 2010-01-16T06:48:00Z Expect plenty of impersonators with bald heads, overdone lipstick and outrageous couture on The Mall as this celebration of what would have been Leigh Bowery's 50th birthday gets underway. This week's new events 2011-03-26T00:07:01Z Wiseacre Brewing Co., a craft brewery; Bounty on Broad, a farm to table restaurant; a couture shop and local artisan boutiques have also opened on Broad Avenue. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Hands that built the garments, most of which referenced classic couture tropes but revealed the work and structure inside: the boning of corsetry, the tulle underskirts, the linings of trousers and horsehair stuffing of suiting. In Milan, Fashion Tries to Go Back to Normal. What Does That Even Mean? 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Visitors are invited to stroll its length and examine the 130 Valentino couture gowns, jackets, capes and cocktail dresses worn by white mannequins in various languorous and purpose-filled poses among the audience chairs. | 'Valentino: Master of Couture' 2012-11-28T22:03:06Z Few ballets transcend the show of designer couture; few fashion designers are right for the groupings and architectures of ballet. ‘We, the Dancers’: At City Ballet’s Gala, Affirming Ballet’s Honor 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z But in the end, she “tossed that all away,” she said, opting instead “to create a sophisticated couture dress appropriate for a 10-year-old, with an element of old movie glamor.” Clothes and Character: 'Annie' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Its hand-woven draped collar in tweed showed off couture's accomplished fastidious technique. Christian Dior changes its face in couture day 1 2012-07-03T02:46:04Z I loved the room in their house where the maids worked on my grandmother’s couture. Haute Ticket: Jacqueline de Ribes at the Met 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z By turning the conversation away from embellishment and flawless elegance, he may have given new life to couture. Fashion Review: Milan Steps Out of the Back Seat 2010-09-27T23:01:00Z He brought the couture shapes forward so that they seemed natural to the Jil Sander imagery. On the Runway: Set Against Black, Jil Sander Strikes a Nerve 2011-02-26T18:16:21Z “It looked as though he had couture training — the details were the same, the workmanship was similar; I was really surprised,” Valentino said in an interview. The ‘Mad Professor’ Who Makes Sure the Tutus Swirl 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z She only produces four or five copies of each design, so it is almost like haute couture but at off-the-peg prices. A local’s guide to Verona: 10 top tips 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Certainly you see it in the snappy military coats and jewel necklines popularized by Kate Middleton, in the ladylike restraint of the fall Valentino couture show, in the pin-neat coats for fall. T Magazine: Norman's Conquest 2011-10-10T21:00:20Z A decade ago, couture houses scarcely referred to Asian clients, and not so many Russians, either. On the Runway Blog: 20 Outfits, Coming Right Up! 2013-01-25T18:00:10Z Per Eater, a high-platform version of the shoes, "designed to look like haute couture buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken for your feet," were first introduced months prior during New York Fashion Week. As Crocs turn 20, here's a look back at how they became a beloved kitchen shoe 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Eunice Johnson’s personal style will be honored in March when the Chicago History Museum exhibits 60 pieces of haute couture culled from her collection of 7,000. Ebony Looks to Its Past as It Modernizes 2012-12-08T00:10:24Z The couture show organized by Ms. Takhar was spare yet elegant. The Men (and Women) Who Would Be Halston 2011-09-03T03:16:49Z Tapping the dark depths of imagination and blurring the boundaries between art and fashion, the 27-year-old represents a younger and fresher side to Paris couture week. Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture 2012-01-24T00:17:19Z Wearing a patterned clown suit as if it is haute couture, she wilts with such a subtle command of pathos and control that her body instantly becomes a container of many pasts. Dance Review: Cori Olinghouse at Danspace Project 2013-12-13T22:32:48Z And both Mr. Simons and Mr. Lagerfeld seriously considered casual-chic shapes, like jumpsuits and slacks with spare tops, in a further effort to break preconceived attitudes about couture. Couture Reveals Its Lighter Side at Paris Fashion Shows 2014-01-22T21:12:17Z She walked the runways for all the couture houses and she developed a signature double twirl. ‘We Fascinated Them’: Shailah Edmonds on a Golden Era of Black Models 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Indeed, there were doubts whether new wealth would find its way to haute couture. On the Runway Blog: 20 Outfits, Coming Right Up! 2013-01-25T18:00:10Z Though that couture experiment was kind of satisfying. The First Great Designer of 2022 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Opening the world documentary lineup is Frédéric Tcheng’s “Dior and I,” which follows Raf Simons, the latest artistic director for Christian Dior, as he assembles his first haute couture collection for the company. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival Announces First Round of Programming 2014-03-04T17:44:46Z Jennifer Lopez, who walked the red carpet in a liquid disco ball molded to her singular form, has changed into a silvery something that looks a little less couture and a lot more comfortable. Is it hot in here or is it just shirtless Jason Momoa? Scenes from the Vanity Fair Oscar party. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “And I can buy three of those for the price of one haute couture gown. That’s when I started wearing ready-to-wear.” Betsy Bloomingdale, Socialite and Friend of Influencers, Dies at 93 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z It is a master stroke of Mr. Lauriot’s to list the number of hours it took for each piece of the couture work: 106 for the leopard. Special Report: Fashion: Gaultier's Talking Heads Astound 2011-06-17T11:01:16Z Included here are glam shots by her favorite photographer, Harry Langdon Jr., and Polaroids of every couture gown she wore on Carson. Review | Joan Rivers never threw away a joke — or anything else. It’s all here. 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z And must couture exist only on a pedestal or as an annex of Hollywood? On the Runway Blog: Dior: Letting Loose 2013-07-01T20:50:19Z By contrast, Mr. Tisci said, the show collection was a lot more “couture.” Burberry’s Alternate Fashion Reality 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z He wouldn’t have time to sew a suit jacket, but we could discuss another couture design. Planning my wedding as a non-binary bride 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z More than 130 couture items designed over five decades, in many cases for well-known personalities, trace the career of this influential designer. A Nationwide Guide to Art Exhibitions This Spring 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z I couldn’t fit into your haute couture unless you painted it on to me while I slept. Oscar dresses reviewed by a man who knows nothing about fashion 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z From dresses worn by some of the world's most famous women to stitch-by-stitch analysis of how couture is made, the exhibition will bring to life one of the most glamorous sections of the fashion industry. Valentino: Master of Couture Part One - video 2012-11-12T16:29:54Z Brian Guidry’s burlap clothing — made from discarded coffee sacks that he collected while working on the docks, and nodding to both the history of slavery and haute couture — is weirdly unforgettable. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z He described himself as a “tasteful thief” for appropriating from glam rock, soul, disco, punk rock and haute couture. 80,000 items from rock legend David Bowie to go on display in London 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z But however sartorial or casual, from a slim satin suit through a malleable leather tuxedo to a draped top, each piece suggested a couture sensibility. Fashion Review: Coats and More Coats for Autumn 2012 Men?s Wear 2012-01-23T11:23:03Z A look from the Dior haute couture collection in Paris. On the Runway: And Now Couture 2011-01-24T23:47:55Z Every time when the overall silliness of the story overwhelms common sense, the next scene reminds us that Gwyneth Paltrow is in this mess, and she does look stunning in daytime couture. "The Politician" is a show about ambition – Ryan Murphy's 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z This Formula One show was more workmanlike: a descriptive narration of the outfits, as in old fashioned couture shows. Milan Designers Fusing Sporty and Formal 2012-01-16T18:52:22Z The day after the couture shows is typically when magazines do their photo shoots, snagging the dresses they want to tell a story and often working around a house’s client schedule. Haute Couture 101 2010-07-08T22:49:00Z One would be hard pressed to imagine there's a machine-made element to it, but that's Bolton's point: Haute couture and ready-to-wear are overly strict definitions, in his view. The new fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute explores the relationship between hand-sewn and machine-made garments, and argues that the two methods are equally important to the past, present and future of fashion 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z We do all the Chanel couture shows, of course, which are always very special. The Unsung Heroes of Fashion, Now Mostly Unemployed 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Q. This privileged and private couture event seems a long way from your shows with Courtney Love sitting in the front row and singing at the after party. Special Report: Haute Couture: Skeletons, Family and Religion 2010-07-06T17:38:00Z It was predicted as more and more fashion houses began to drop off the couture schedule, including Balmain and Saint Laurent. ‘Bridgerton’ Has Nothing on the Couture 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z In her new role, Princess Grace moved swiftly away from costume and toward Paris haute couture, donning the fussier grandeur of a Balenciaga-embroidered jacket. Review: Grace Kelly: A Legacy of Wholesome Elegance 2010-05-03T11:30:00Z But this season, the salt-and-pepper of the Dior couture experience added to the fashion feast. On Top of the World 2013-01-17T17:58:13Z But if it does not feel like a 21st century take on a famous designer of haute couture sensuality, how can the Ungaro brand build its future? Special Report: Fashion: A Question of Brand Identity 2011-03-07T19:22:15Z Even the brands’ couture shows, which had been in decline for years, began to flourish. Two butterflies, one wheel 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z If the “Skin Deep” room shows Mr. Gaultier upending all conventions, the next, “Punk Cancan,” displays the art at the heart of couture. Special Report: Fashion: Gaultier's Talking Heads Astound 2011-06-17T11:01:16Z In 2007, when the designers needed new financing, Ms. Bravo put them in touch with a Paris headhunter, who in turn introduced them to Valentino, the couture house. New York Fashion Week: New York Fashion Week; For Proenza Schouler, a Big Leap 2012-09-08T01:10:01Z After last year’s stark exhibition of Rei Kawakubo’s irregular apparel, the Met Costume Institute is back in blockbuster mode with this three-part blowout on the influence of Catholicism on haute couture of the past century. 29 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z True to his aesthetic, the designer showed trousers, which are so rare on couture runways, teaming them perhaps with a shapely peplum jacket. 2010-01-27T13:08:00Z In their fifth couture collection, the house’s design duo hit target: to produce a dress that clients were sighing and dying for; and a collection that was Very Valentino is spirit — but fresh and young. Special Report: Fashion: Gaultier: From Cheek to Chic 2011-01-27T18:38:23Z Much was made of actress Kirsten Dunst stepping out last week to the Paris haute couture shows wearing camisole and jeans – and not a scrap of makeup. Barefaced trick: lose the lipstick, grab the spotlight 2012-07-13T22:01:21Z But whereas most of this group’s work is destined for Chanel’s haute couture, Barrie Knitwear is a separate type of acquisition related mainly to ready-to-wear. Wool Gets a Chance at the Top 2012-10-29T11:53:17Z “I thought about maximalism — its forms and shapes, with codes that could be brought to Jil Sander in a couture language,” said Mr. Simons, who added women to his menswear repertoire only five years ago. Special Report: In Color and Shape: Who Dares Wins 2010-09-26T17:39:00Z Chanel is, after all, a brand that is almost synonymous with French fashion, and couture, a specific segment of the fashion industry that exists formally only in France. Melania Trump, at the State Dinner in Chanel, Gave Everyone Something to Chew On 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The house, controlled by Spanish perfume maker Puig, will concentrate on haute couture collections, perfume and various collaborations within the industry, it said in a statement. Jean-Paul Gaultier to quit ready-to-wear 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Saint Laurent was a couturier, and he was going to offer fashion at roughly a tenth of the price of his haute couture. On the Runway: YSL and the Spirit of the '60s 2011-03-04T15:57:38Z It was an outfit from Schiaparelli, reintroduced as a couture house on Monday after a 60-year hiatus. Fashion Review: In Paris, Schiaparelli Returns to Couture 2014-01-20T14:47:27Z If I may pursue the culinary metaphor, and supplement it with a different comparison: “Allied,” while neither haute cuisine or haute couture, is like an expertly tailored suit or a properly cooked classic dish. Review: ‘Allied’ Uncorks a Favorite Vintage, and Infuses It 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The designs echoed the “couture is an attitude” slogan of his last collection in February. Biker ballerinas and flowers strut down Moschino's Milan catwalk 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z At the Golden Globe awards in January, the actress Emma Watson wore a red Dior couture dress with slim pants. Prom Looks Now Include Vintage Clothing and Styles from the Red Carpet 2014-04-25T22:16:02Z Jordan Roth, the Broadway producer, arrived in Givenchy couture with his long hair stacked in a tower of curls. Sienna Miller and Anna Wintour Celebrate ‘American Woman’ 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Saint Laurent is known to have said: “Art is a very big word for couture. It’s a métier like any other, but a poetic métier.” Review: At the Costume Institute, Couture Meets Technology 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z I fear that couture is not modern — or, anyway, the term may be unnecessary. Fashion Review: Haute Couture: The Fine Line 2012-01-25T22:09:21Z This is where Norell learned the construction and couture techniques he would so deftly absorb into ready-to-wear. ‘Norell: Dean of American Fashion’ Review: The First Icon of Fashion Avenue 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The couture film wasn’t inclusive, but previous presentations have been, particularly the cruise collection unveiled in 2019 in Marrakesh, and upcoming ones will be. Perspective | Fashion shows are now 12-hour live streams. Or movies starring mermaids. Or mailed to you in a box. 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z “I wanted East and West: judo belts, kimono shapes, harem pants and the influence of Chinese lacquered furniture,” said the Balmain designer Olivier Rousteing, who explained the importance of fine work from a couture house. On Top of the World 2013-01-17T17:58:13Z Yet each premiere was preceded by short documentary films in which couture seemed all. Review: City Ballet’s Gala Evening of Misses ... and a Lot of Skin 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Versace used one word to describe couture versus the ready-to-wear shows: “Freedom.” Couture's Odd Sort of Mingling 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z In July, the house showed its rare and fancy jewels during couture in Paris. Moussaieff in Expansion Mode 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z A crowd pays tribute to tourist couture at an Orchard Street party on the Lower East Side. This Is the Summer the Youth Own New York 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Oriental wrapped silks combined with Bejeweled couture, which embellished the show's hourglass silhouettes. Lanvin, Nina Ricci, Balmain are ladylike on day 3 2013-03-01T04:16:08Z “I went crazy with checks, and there are subtle references in the tailoring to ’60s couture,” he says. The New York Designer Subverting American Workwear 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z He popularized tuxedo-style suits for women, known as “Le Smoking”, for instance, and made a transition from the world of haute couture to ready-to-wear clothes. Yves Saint Laurent designs get new airing at Paris museum 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z His first couture show was entirely black and white and is often cited as the moment high fashion returned to the label. A Designer’s Suicide and the Clothes He Left Behind 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z There are lots of couture elements and grungy, punkish elements, like a skirt completely embroidered with ribbons and a big man’s shirt in cotton organza. Dries Van Noten: In His Own Words 2012-09-26T16:08:45Z “She is writing a new category in the fashion world that didn’t exist,” said Giambattista Valli, the Italian designer of haute couture. Olivia Palermo Got a Lot Out of That Internship 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z A romantic sash was slung over a double-breasted charcoal suit at the chest and hip in a feat of accomplished styling — and one that harkened to couture draping. Dior pulls the stars in conveyor-belt menswear show in Paris 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Jamil also spent years on "The Good Place" proving that she has the bone structure to carry off couture. HBO Max is here – but not for everyone! Here's how to watch, plus reviews of every original show 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z But when she went to the Globes, it was in a sheer Versace couture dress. The psychology of the Golden Globes dress 2011-01-13T22:21:54Z A former Vogue editor sums up his decades-long career in the fashion world, from his first apprenticeship to the front row at couture shows to his fraught relationship with Anna Wintour. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z We're not talking basic white here, but showpieces elaborately embellished with sparkling pearls, beads and flowers showing off fashion's dying art of couture workmanship. Oscars 2015: Red carpet fun with Moore's sequins, Nyong'o's pearls, more 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Lesage, who took over the business from his father Albert in 1949, was one of the last links in a chain that stretches back to the golden era of haute couture. A Master of Embroidery Remembered 2011-12-12T12:37:05Z Mr. Simons’s first collection is planned for July at the fall haute couture shows in Paris. Raf Simons to Take Over at Dior 2012-04-10T17:45:18Z With their audacious entrances and conspicuous consumption, they are the most visible new customers for couture in a generation, far outspending clients from emerging economies like India, Brazil and China. The Russians Claim the Fashion Spotlight 2012-06-29T20:17:42Z The sculpted hats of Mr. Balenciaga’s fisherman father also suggested haute couture’s golden age. Special Report: Fashion: Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga Mixes Heritage and Style 2011-09-29T17:18:23Z But Lady Dant does have a Christian Dior haute couture dress, and suddenly, a dream is awakened in Mrs. Harris. Lesley Manville is endearing in "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," a feel-good couture fairy tale 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Loaded with beads, rhinestones and sequins, couture is generally a weighty business. Couture ends with revolution, as masses enter show 2011-07-06T22:46:06Z The black velvet and silk was enriched with tassel and pompom details and necklaces, fringes and strings of colored beads and sparkling sequins, showing off the sharp, elegant lines of Armani couture. Milan's fashion week wraps up with Armani's expressive colors 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Whimsy Teased From Molten Beginnings Some of the art in “Jean-Michel Othoniel: My Way,” a whimsical but cloying midcareer survey at the Brooklyn Museum, can strike you as the sculptural equivalent of haute couture. Art Review: ‘Jean-Michel Othoniel: My Way’ at Brooklyn Museum 2012-08-23T20:26:09Z Most of the models on the couture runways in Paris last month were not tan but pale. Spray-On Fashion 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Stella cared about clothes — included in the show is an exhibition of her luxurious couture dresses — and said memorable things like, “The biggest waste in life is time.” Dance Review: Recalling and Quoting Her Mother 2011-05-06T23:26:08Z In addition to fashion editors, stylists and journalists, some of the wildly wealthy women who actually buy couture gowns - with pricetags that start at that of a new car - also attend the over-the-top shows. Models in space suits close Paris menswear shows 2010-06-28T01:16:00Z Shown on a mirrored runway, with columns covered in tufted ice-blue vinyl, the clothes evoked an obsessive interest in style, one associated with haute couture and Hollywood glamour of the ’30s, but also dominatrix fantasies.” | Theyskens' Theory Wins! 2011-02-16T03:02:25Z Nobody does better an updated version of Parisian couture. Fashion Review: Phoebe Philo at Celine and Haider Ackermann on Paris Catwalks 2011-10-02T18:48:42Z “No, no, no,” Mr. Tisci said, when asked at the couture shows in Paris last month if he had been contacted by Kering. At Gucci, a Messy Exit for One Designer Opens an Unlikely Door for Another 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Its 110 outfits on display will include garments from Saint Laurent’s years as a very young designer at the House of Dior, and later work from his couture house. Yves Saint Laurent exhibit coming soon to SAM 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Or none of the above, if you take a cerebral approach and trace the rise of minimalism, the Belgian and Japanese counterculture and the surviving splendor of haute couture. Exhibition Review: Turn of the Century in a Skewed View 2011-01-10T13:43:26Z The evening dresses of crepe, velvet, plissé and brocade, mostly nocturnal navy and occasionally caped, possessed the discreet grandeur that is the real promise of couture. | Valentino 2012-07-05T15:30:30Z It offers the very best of the market, from classical to contemporary: antiquities, old masters, Impressionist paintings, flatware, couture jewelry, photography. Q&A: Navigating Art Fairs in Miami and Beyond 2013-11-30T21:29:22Z For the series, he asked Japanese models and actresses to imagine cinematographic versions of their own deaths, shot while wearing stunning haute couture. A Collector’s Favorite: Dark but Strangely Peaceful Beauty 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z And in fact, the videos that revealed just that — bringing the viewer inside the creation process — were the ones that hinted at couture’s true magic. Digital Dior. Remote Chanel. What’s Couture With No Runway? 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z There is a back story and still the intrigue of how these couture pieces are put together. Secrets of ‘Downton Abbey’ Style 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Click here to see stunning examples of contemporary haute couture. Fantasy Made Real 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “The short dress and chic gas mask will be the talk of Milan, London, Paris, and New York as the world’s fashionistas seek global solutions to hazmat couture.” The “Sexy Ebola Containment Suit” Halloween costume proves we are a civilization on the decline 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z He masterminded a business approach now gone general: glamorous couture as a loss-leader, ready-to-wear as the profit center and licensing deals to radiate your name worldwide. Back to the Future With Pierre Cardin’s Space-Age Fashion 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z When the store opened, it made a startling impact, with a style in direct contrast to the country’s fashion history and its couture houses. Shopping frenzy as Parisians say adieu to Colette, cutting-edge fashion store 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z When Carrie started flashing her Carrie with pride, the gold necklaces were deemed perfect to pair with pajamas or haute couture. Review | 10 trends launched by ‘Sex and the City’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The sky in Venice wept on Wednesday, for there were no pictures to be taken of Zendaya in couture clambering from a speedboat. Venice Film Festival: No Zendaya as the Strikes Change the Picture 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z But this time the stars were in sync with the recent haute couture shows. On the Runway Blog: The SAG Awards Get a Lift 2013-01-28T17:10:09Z When clothing appears at the Metropolitan Museum, it’s typically a big to-do involving the Costume Institute, haute couture and numerous theatrical set pieces. ‘Kimono: A Modern History’ at the Met Tells Rich Stories Through Fabric 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Dior haute couture ignored it with its ivory-skinned mermaids and nymphs. Perspective | Fashion shows are now 12-hour live streams. Or movies starring mermaids. Or mailed to you in a box. 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Paris sparkled under Chanel's stage lights on Tuesday as the French house created a hall of mirrors to showcase its latest couture collection at Paris Fashion Week. Paris Fashion sparkles in Chanel's hall of mirrors 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Since 2014, junk foods have been a prominent source of inspiration in a slew of haute couture pieces. What is high fashion's obsession with cheap eats? 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Don't give me that Old Navy couture money. "We beat ourselves up": Michelle Buteau recognizes our insecurities and reflects our sexiness back 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z There were beautiful frocks at the Globes, which are a fashion dry run for the bigger, more exclusive, more serious, more haute couture Oscars. How Bryce Dallas Howard’s size 6 dress won the Golden Globes red carpet 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z And nothing symbolizes that like the couture: stratospherically expensive clothes made by hand for the ivory tower few, just as it has been for decades. At Couture, Lofty Traditions Face the New Swiftness of Fury 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z In the Berluti headquarters near the Avenue Montaigne in Paris, wooden shoe lasts, each penciled with an individual client’s name, prove that this brand is the haute couture of footwear. In men?s wear, Italian is premier but French are the owners 2012-01-13T14:48:20Z An haute couture legend who has lost her creative mojo finds inspiration in a rude Breton gardener, but he needs some convincing to stick around as her new muse. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z She wore a blue, satin gown with long sleeves and an off-the-shoulder collar over trousers, all from Elie Saab haute couture. Perspective | The most eye-catching red carpet look at the Oscars wasn’t a dress. It was a blue ACLU ribbon. 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z "It's not like the old days anymore, and couture has to be able to change and adapt." Chanel's casual chic vs. Givenchy's extreme art 2011-01-25T23:56:11Z Like great fashion photography, couture has been exhaustively mined and recombined with vernacular styles like workwear. Fashion Review: New York Fashion Week Review: Creatures of the Wind, Richard Chai,Peter Som, Lisa Perry 2012-09-08T00:03:15Z They're couture pieces, cut and assembled by veteran costumers and seamstresses from fabrics selected specifically for each performance. Magic behind custom-made costumes for `Dancing' 2011-03-21T14:02:18Z Friends describe her fashion sense as casual rather than couture. Why the Rainmaker Is Now the Gatekeeper 2010-03-06T02:48:00Z The collection's oversized accessories and sculptural accents blurred the fine line between couture and art. Call the chauffeur: Paris designers ban walking 2011-07-06T00:58:11Z Like couture, there is technical innovation and craft in her books. Lacroix and Blahnik Star in Fashion Fairy Tales 2012-02-29T18:45:55Z With its precise shaping, this collection, absolutely free of froufrou, showed the power of a fashion architect in a couture world often dominated by decorators. Special Report: Fashion: Gaultier: From Cheek to Chic 2011-01-27T18:38:23Z If this hush-hush couture takes off, it may serve to regenerate the Paris season by putting the customers, so long chased away by show-off spectators, back in high fashion’s front row. The World of Couture Is Growing 2012-07-01T17:54:28Z Ten years later, Balenciaga was dead; and with him, arguably, the age of haute couture. Books Of Style: Balenciaga’s World of Mystery: Books of Style 2013-01-26T00:03:55Z This challenge attracts creative fashionistas who aim to turn everyday pillows into striking quarantine couture, often using belts to fashionably fasten the pillows around their waists. The Social Media Challenges Helping Keep Boredom at Bay 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z The idea was relevant: haute couture imagined in a sporty way for the street. Cathy Horyn?s Key Fashion Moments of 2010 2010-12-31T04:26:10Z Encompassing 170 ensembles and dresses, it examines how haute couture, long associated with impeccably handmade garments tailored to individual clients, is increasingly integrating breakthroughs in technologies and materials. Review: At the Costume Institute, Couture Meets Technology 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Dior presented jewels inspired by its own couture heritage. Chinese collectors jet in to buy Wallace Chan jewels at Biennale 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z A similar blitheness moved Riccardo Tisci to lavish his fall couture collection for Givenchy with opulent beading and fringe that owed a debt to the contemporary Gypsies of his native Southern Italy. Joining the Caravan: The Gypsy Aesthetic Gains in Popularity on Runways and Streets 2012-07-11T21:27:14Z On Wednesday, as the spring haute couture shows wound down, Jean Paul Gaultier evoked her chaotic essence in a marvelous show. On the Runway Blog: Jean Paul Gaultier: All This Craziness 2012-01-26T06:10:05Z “People in India are not used to buying expensive things online, unless there is a proper customer interface with a couture team or certain store managers,” Mr. Tahiliani said. Unfamiliar Territory for Indian Bridal Industry 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The standard for couture, after all, is perfection. Perspective | Karl Lagerfeld didn’t have a signature design — but he invented a new kind of designer 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Then he explored the couture traditions of the house’s founder, Cristóbal Balenciaga. Balenciaga: Domestic Studies 2010-03-04T17:41:00Z At the top was Anne Hathaway, in a gold Princess Leia-like thing she described as “a couture dress with a hoodie.” Pinnacle of Glamour and Glitz at the Met Gala 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Iris Van Herpen's second haute couture show wrapped up a frenzied day of spring-summer collections with clothes that dipped into a darkly aquatic world, apparently inspired by "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture 2012-01-24T00:17:19Z Now, like Demna’s ready-to-wear shows — effectively a form of social commentary — his couture has become the equivalent of a blockbuster event: the next stage in fashion’s evolution into pop culture. Blockbusters at Balenciaga and Margiela 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “There’s an idea that couture is about embroideries, something that is very rich. From my point of view that’s an old fashioned vision of fashion and haute couture.” Dior's Grecian goddesses kick off Paris fashion extravaganza 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The designer, Michelle Smith, is a starry-eyed young Sadie Married Lady who studied fashion illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology and interned at Hermès, Vuitton and Christian Dior haute couture in Paris. Critical Shopper: Milly in Manhattan Takes Contemporary to Extremes 2012-02-29T21:18:18Z The dusty pink plaster runway at the Prabal Gurung show suggested an edgy prettiness and with “Addicted to Love” throbbing on the soundtrack, the designer went for a full-on couture romanticism. Special Report: Fashion: Addicted to Love 2011-02-13T17:19:03Z Haute couture is all about dressing up - dressing way, way, up, in fact, in made-to-measure garments that cost as much as a new car. The naked and the dead at Paris couture 2010-07-08T00:29:00Z A pale lilac carpet on the next level leads visitors towards a catwalk, where rows of white chairs are lined up amongst more than 130 pieces from Valentino's couture collections. London show fetes Italian fashion designer Valentino 2012-11-29T17:38:48Z A passionate collector of spinel, he uses lavender and pink stones in couture pieces that he describes as “evening jewelry.” Special Report: Jewelry: Restoring the Luster to a Once-Loved Gem 2011-05-12T13:49:21Z Displays from Paris’ select Haute couture club - a small circle of designers creating luxury, handmade outfits for clients - runs until Jan. 25. Chanel brings springtime to Paris with extravagant rose garden 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z When I started my editor’s job, so many moons ago, haute couture had just stopped being a one-to-one with wealthy clients and had become a laboratory of ideas. | The New Speed of Fashion 2013-08-23T13:00:55Z Wearing fetching new eyeglasses and a perfectly tailored suit, Mr. Ford showed Oscar-worthy gowns to haute couture standards. Fashion Review: Tom Ford Rolls Out a Glamorama 2012-02-21T18:17:26Z And only the fat-cat corporations can really afford to put on two mega ready-to-wear shows a year, or four if you add two haute couture shows, or six if you count men’s wear. | The New Speed of Fashion 2013-08-23T13:00:55Z Yet these virtues seem externally applied: couture rather than creed. Dance Review: Random Dance Company Presents ‘Atomos,’ a Premiere 2014-03-19T21:47:05Z And the old guard in New York weren’t like that at all, and suddenly this whirlwind of couture descended on their heads. For Julian Fellowes, after 'Downton' and 'School of Rock' comes 'The Gilded Age' 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z I just feel like we need better forces on this stuff than people who capitalise Tux, or commit to wearing couture menswear more than once. How do you know when the Oscars have gone vegan? Answer: they keep telling you 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z According to retailers, his ready-to-wear, couture and collaborations generate an estimated $80 million in sales annually. Giambattista Valli, Designing for Women in the Know 2012-03-21T21:28:44Z Some may however lament the loss of her fluidly architectural, and more ostensibly couture, gowns. Pink, Hudson, Leto make Armani a celebrity circus 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z "They were faster and up to the minute, not like the haute couture kimonos where you're picking a design by a well-known artist that is then hand-dyed and hand-crafted." East meets West in bold, colorful kimonos in LACMA show 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z It was in October, after the final ready-to-wear collections, not July, after the couture shows. Remembering Azzedine Alaïa: The Designer Who Took Time 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z In every sense, this show on the first day of the brief couture season was Dior Light. Fashion Review: Dior?s Couture: True to Code 2012-01-23T18:05:24Z With haute couture itself contracting, designers at the high end of ready-to-wear are filling the space and took fashion to an intense level in a powerful season. Fashion Review: Marc Jacobs and the Louis Vuitton Merry-Go-Round 2011-10-05T18:17:17Z For better or worse, depending on which critic one consults, she pulled off that dubious feat by accenting her dramatic one-shoulder Dior haute couture dress with a pair of pristine opera gloves. The Uproar Over Amal Clooney’s White Gloves 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Bahnsen has now become renowned for her refined but seemingly effortless dresses that combine the fine detailing of French couture and the simplicity of Scandinavian design. The Danish Designer Making Fanciful Dresses With a Dark Side 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z When the collaborationist Vichy government took over direction of the French lifestyle magazine Paris Soir, it announced in its pages a “summer of couture ... and shopping.” Op-Ed Contributor: High Fascism 2011-03-07T06:48:00Z Mr. Owens likes the odd couture flourish, as well as the quasi-religious symbol. Fashion Review: Paris Men?s Shows Offer Order Amid Chaos 2010-06-25T21:37:00Z The force of the Far East rising in the fading splendor of the Western world was shown also by the choice of striking Asian models, until recently unseen on couture runways. Fashion Review: Chanel's Kinetic Look at a New World 2013-07-02T17:11:40Z The simple evening design was an antidote to overwrought couture, and the tiny punched holes allowed just enough silvery light to shine through, so that you weren’t quite sure what you were seeing. On the Runway: Waiting for Ala?a 2011-07-08T16:42:19Z The "odd couture" pop star will reportedly issue the album in March or April 2011, making it her third record in as many years. Lady Gaga's new album 'finished' 2010-06-23T08:49:00Z Yet there is almost a couture sense to his design. 2010-02-13T02:22:00Z The title character is often shadowed by four look-alike silent Marnies, dressed in identical early-1960s couture in strikingly different colors; at other times, she’s shadowed by 10 silent men in gray. It’s Starting to Look a Lot Like Choreography on Opera Stages 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z In couture, clothes are cut and stitched by hand. Raf Simons’s First Dior Collection 2012-07-03T22:19:35Z Throughout his career, Mr. Galanos crafted ready-to-wear gowns and sheer chiffon skirts that drew favorable comparisons to the finest garments of French haute couture. James Galanos, who designed couture-quality garments for social elites, dies at 92 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z It’s why his effect is felt not just in men’s wear but in women’s wear, too; not just in ready-to-wear, but in couture; from high to low and back again. David Bowie’s Fashion Legacy 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Three years later he returned to his first love — gowns — starting a couture line and expanding his women’s ready-to-wear business to include boldly colored dresses and gamine daywear. In His Paris Apartment, Alexis Mabille Creates a Singular Universe 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z From the couture runway to underground dispensaries, home kitchens and the far corners of Etsy, all things fungus are having a moment. Year of the mushroom: Why 2022 was defined by fungi 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Nor did the delicate lace, its prettiness subverted by skull patterns, which created a dark romance in Mr. Tisci’s July haute couture collection. Special Report: Fashion: Taking the Long View 2010-10-04T18:40:00Z It wasn’t that Killing Eve was bad this year; I still looked forward to every second of Jodie Comer being lethal in couture. Killing Eve to Game of Thrones: the biggest TV disappointments of 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z “Dressing couture,” said the designer, who showed his 12 easy pieces on mannequins, the better to see cuffs fringed like feathers and the casual glamour of a raffia and cotton skirt. Special Report: Haute Couture: Mix-And-Match 2010-07-05T17:36:00Z The design duo’s way of making couture and even costume structures seem relevant is part of their charm. Going to the Max: Dolce & Gabbana 2012-09-23T17:57:26Z Magical handwork separates haute couture from the rest of fashion, but it depends on modern ideas to be relevant. Couture Reveals Its Lighter Side at Paris Fashion Shows 2014-01-22T21:12:17Z Mr. Tait’s spirit is utterly contemporary, backed by a solid feeling for couture. Fashion Review: In London Fashion, the Olympic Glow Continues 2012-09-19T19:37:35Z Was Mr. Krakoff, in Paris a few weeks before he would show his collection in New York, attending some of the couture presentations? On the Runway Blog: Between Couture Shows, a Fashionable Party 2014-01-22T17:28:10Z Turning couture into an instrument of diplomacy, he staged Saint Laurent expositions in Moscow and Beijing. Pierre Bergé, Transformative Fashion Executive, Dies at 86 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z But Mr. Gaultier walked each idea along the tightrope of haute couture, making the complex seem so easy. Special Report: Fashion: Gaultier: From Cheek to Chic 2011-01-27T18:38:23Z Mr. Lagerfelds creativity was extraordinary when focused — his couture shows could be transcendent; he transformed Fendi and the whole idea of fur — but often it wasn’t, and the result could be self-indulgent. Is Virgil Abloh the Karl Lagerfeld for Millennials? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The proceedings, however, kept suggesting that couture and ballet have less in common than we might hope. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Gala, With Costumes by Valentino 2012-09-22T00:16:05Z In another fashion essay Leibovitz offers a hilarious parody of famous couture shoots of the past. Annie Leibovitz, the Un-Fashion Photographer 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z For the rich fashion houses - those owned by corporate conglomerates with deep pockets - haute couture is still the ultimate mark of prestige, a nod to history and a way of distinguishing a brand. T Magazine: Haute Stuff 2012-10-15T13:00:07Z One entitled “Performance,” meant to be evergreen, and defined by classic couture tropes — the sack dress, the cold-shoulder top — remixed and regurgitated in the everyday uniform of his borderless land. It’s Telfar’s World. We’re Just Living in It. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The Versace Atelier collection, which opened the summer haute couture season in Paris this week, melded Grace with Gaga to make a lively and often lovely collection. Fashion Review: At Versace, Grace Jones Meets Lady Gaga 2014-01-20T10:07:39Z He will face competition from his fellow Brit Daniel Day-Lewis, who plays a dressmaker in Phantom Thread, a drama set in London’s 1950s couture world written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Oscar nods pour in for The Shape of Water in year coloured by #MeToo 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z She did couture sophistication and 1960s pop futurism with equal ease. Books Of the Times: Grace Coddington Gives Inside Look at Vogue in Memoir 2012-11-25T21:43:40Z Her couture is coherent and convincing; it’s unclear why her ready-to-wear is so limp. It’s the End of the World as We Know It 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z For her last, on French couture, she wore a gauzy Halston gown suggestive of an exotic bird of green and black plumage. Rosamond Bernier, Art Insider Who Turned Lectures Into Theater, Dies at 100 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Yet, outside of a couture workroom, you would never find this degree of lightness, both in technique and sensibility. On the Runway Blog: Dior: Holding Couture to the Light 2012-01-24T15:59:02Z The handworked embroidery is even more extreme than the embroidery on couture. A Trinity of Opinions on the Met’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Winehouse may seem a strange symbol for couture, but like her, couture is fragile, rare, free-spirited, ornery — and when it’s gone, it’s gone. Fashion Review: Haute Couture: The Fine Line 2012-01-25T22:09:21Z Among the very best dressed was Zoe Saldana in a fresh and fashion conscious purple Givenchy haute couture gown with matching shoes and bag - perhaps unsurprising for a fashion week front row regular. Oscar fashion 2010-03-08T06:41:00Z It’s not worth our emotional involvement, nor is it clear from the shape that a couture technique revealed a new form. 2010-01-28T08:06:00Z But even regular output lends consistency and rigor to couture. Fashion Review: Haute Couture: The Fine Line 2012-01-25T22:09:21Z The Palais Garnier might have been designed for an extravagant party, its wide stairs created to be bedecked with flowers, its sumptuous gilded framework and ornate statues a perfect backdrop for posing in couture. At Paris Opera Ballet’s Gala: Champagne, Chanel, Contemporary Dance 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Also, couture samples don’t allow for much leeway in fit. On the Runway Blog: And in Couture Is ... 2012-01-27T19:07:26Z Calatrava’s engineering is like the interior tailoring on a couture gown: you can’t see how it works, but it looks gorgeous, and it costs a fortune to produce. The Best Part of Calatrava’s Oculus 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z With a newly installed designer Raf Simons at the helm, poised to show his first couture collection in Paris next month, Dior is looking forward to rave reviews again. Big picture: Sophia Loren for Christian Dior 2012-06-15T22:00:55Z The Art of Style, and the Style of Art Real women don’t wear couture. Art Review: American Style at the Met and the Brooklyn Museum 2010-05-06T22:29:00Z Certainly the clothes created by Raf Simons in his couture debut at Dior, on Monday, portend a new feeling for beauty free of irony and postmodern tricks. Fashion Review: Fashion Review — Spring Men’s Wear Collections in Paris 2012-07-03T20:38:23Z The designers are learning to use the extraordinary skills of a couture atelier to be more self-critical and demanding. Fashion Review: Spring Couture Collections in Paris — Fashion Review 2013-01-23T22:42:16Z But the show also highlighted the importance of the Middle East and Asia in couture finance: Bollywood actresses mixed alongside Arab and Chinese buyers at his show. Gaultier channels Winehouse, stars shop for Oscars 2012-01-25T23:41:17Z She said of her Gucci couture dress and Tiffany jewels: "It felt like me. It doesn’t always happen, so it's nice when it does." In Pictures: Oscars 2014 red carpet 2014-03-03T00:24:17Z So that is what hit the runway: historic Dior, but lightened up, in the spirit of the couture show in January. Fashion Review: Dior Lightens Up That Old New Look 2012-03-02T18:57:24Z To me, Gaultier represents couture and exceptional tailoring, though he does casual clothes too. Inside the Herm?s Design Choice 2010-05-27T17:32:00Z They were clothes that in every drape, corset, hip pad and pleat spoke of couture’s underlying obsession: a woman. Fashion Review: Paris Couture Shows Stress Lots of Colors 2010-07-07T20:36:00Z How many teens go to couture shows or fashion parties, much less document them on their joint Twitter feed, in such a hilarious, uncensored way?” The Brant Brothers, the New Princes of the City 2012-06-20T20:17:45Z Mrs. Trump, for example, seems to have taken what was originally a jumpsuit from the Chanel spring 2018 couture collection and had it remade as a dress. Melania Trump, at the State Dinner in Chanel, Gave Everyone Something to Chew On 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z I am fascinated with what could be the relevance of the language of couture in the 21st century.” Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z “It was just unusual little touches that made his couture more interesting.” "Mr Dior? He was like family," 1950s model recalls 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Welcome to Bond Street, or what the New West End Company, which represents 600 retailers in the area, calls “the highest proportion of ‘haute couture’ stores per square mile in the world.” The New New Bond Street 2013-09-13T22:24:12Z "We were looking at a lot of old 60s couture and paying attention to construction, interlining and ways to build a garment," he said. | Fast Fashion: Creatures of the Wind: What the Wind Blew In 2012-09-06T20:43:00Z She sports crystal-blue eyes, sleek longcoats from the Woo-Tarantino couture shop and stringy hair that swirls in so many directions, independent of its wearer, that it seems to have gone to its own acting class. Underworld Awakening: Me Somewhat Lycan 2012-01-20T13:59:53Z Her funds might run as deep as her walk-in closets, but unlike countless other couture clotheshorses, Guinness doesn’t fetishize fashion as a status symbol. | Daphne Guinness at F.I.T. 2011-09-21T17:16:15Z Certainly decay and disorder were central to punk’s ideology, but the chaos was always controlled, and the chaos was always couture. Anarchy in the Met 2013-04-25T11:55:06Z Rodarte has decided to move its show to the Paris couture in July, so it’s sitting this season out. Everything You Need to Know About This Fashion Season 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z There’s been a growth of haute couture clients from Asia in recent years - credited with the craft’s recent renaissance. Pink, Hudson, Leto make Armani a celebrity circus 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Chiuri debuted her Dior haute couture line in Paris on Monday. Valentino showcases ethereal haute couture collection in Paris 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z It celebrates the luxury wares of mostly French fashion houses, but brings fresh focus to the convergence of traditional haute couture and high-end ready-to-wear. Review: At the Costume Institute, Couture Meets Technology 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Numerous pieces of furniture, tribal art and couture will also be among the lots. Bacall treasures to be put on sale 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Instead of traditional couture fabrics like gazar and taffeta, he used new Japanese synthetics that have a similar loft and at the same time can hold fluorescent dyes. Fashion Review: Milan Steps Out of the Back Seat 2010-09-27T23:01:00Z "Normal rules don't apply" is one of the slogans of haute couture's new enfant terrible, a 27-year-old Dutch designer. Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture 2012-01-24T00:17:19Z Attempting to do so within the context of discussing couture is treacherous. Lorde and Amal Clooney, the red-carpet winners at this year’s Golden Globes 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The couture feeling was all there in the membrane-like fabrics, but the sense of energy was a complete rush. Fashion Review: Balenciaga, Rochas, Rick Owens, Dries Van Noten, Branquinho: Fashion Review 2012-09-28T00:07:01Z Atelier Versace, the haute couture division of the Italian house, showed for the first time since 2004 this morning at the Beaux Arts. | Versace 2012-01-23T18:06:34Z This futuristic feel made even that most classic of couture outfits — the black sweater with a ballgown skirt — look hyper-modern, as Christian Dior’s beloved roses glowed in a pattern with an intergalactic sheen. Fashion Review: At Dior, a Triumph of 21st Century Modernism 2012-09-28T17:29:55Z Therefore, one might naturally expect Saab’s Paris apartment to reflect the color and sumptuousness of his couture. 2009-12-01T05:00:00Z She opened her own brand in 2010, became a part of the official couture schedule in 2013 and is one of the few independent female designers working in Paris. Lanvin Names Bouchra Jarrar as Artistic Director of Women’s Collections 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z At the Victor and Rolf haute couture show, spring 2016, also taken in January. Memorable Views of 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z With an audience of young European heiresses worth their weight in the gilded jewelry on the runway, Giambattista Valli made a triumphant — and charming — entry to haute couture. Special Report: Fashion: Givenchy: Pure Is Beautiful 2011-07-05T17:12:09Z Mr. Gaultier channeled the ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev and a cosmopolitan band led by Rudolf Nureyev for his first menswear on a couture runway. Special Report: Fashion: Plumes of Glorious Restraint 2011-07-06T17:21:47Z The next internship was at the haute couture atelier of Christian Dior on the Avenue Montaigne. How the Designer of Milly Broke Free 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z In an interview he said there were no artists like Leonardo any more: in the late 20th century those kinds of geniuses were creating haute couture, he observed. Where are today's Leonardos? Toy Story 2010-06-23T09:38:00Z The couture shapes that the designer Raf Simons explored last season — the fixed waists, the loose-back jackets — and now shown in a sport way with black ski pants. On the Runway: Set Against Black, Jil Sander Strikes a Nerve 2011-02-26T18:16:21Z Unless you have been catching up on “Gossip Girl” reruns, national deficits and unemployment do not correlate with a couture dress that costs as much as a Harvard education. Fashion Review: Paris Couture Shows Stress Lots of Colors 2010-07-07T20:36:00Z Her ’60s references were the austere, dowdier ones: Jackie Kennedy in black couture silk for a visit to the Vatican rather than Twiggy stick figures. Fashion Review: Milan Fashion Review: Prada, Versace, Etro, MaxMara 2012-09-21T23:37:54Z Apparently here, beneath this temple of haute couture, where Size 2 women outnumber the men 10-to-1, dessert is a dirty word. Department Store Dining, With City Views and Jimmy Choos 2011-12-29T23:59:15Z Then, in the store’s couture room, they will see a private fashion show highlighting the latest Zegna men’s and women’s collections. In Milan, Tours for Beer, History and, of Course, Fashion 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Skin of another kind was on display at Jean Paul Gaultier’s couture show on Wednesday. Fashion Review: Bold or Subtle, Skin Is In 2013-07-03T17:26:27Z As the haute couture collections wound down, Sorbier's show was a much-needed reminder that couture need not be smothered in sequins or dripping with rhinestones to be desirable. The naked and the dead at Paris couture 2010-07-08T00:29:00Z “They are part of couture magic: the premieres, work tables, the ‘hands’.” The Promise of Africa: Hands Across the Water 2012-11-14T10:30:18Z Courtney Love, another fast talker, arrived in a pink couture coat and matching lipstick. Lola Montes Schnabel?s Art Exhibition Opens 2011-12-19T21:22:20Z On the one hand, it may be hard to drum up much pity for gorgeous, highly paid famous women who are usually outfitted in peerless haute couture at no charge. On the Red Carpet, a Revolt Builds Over the Pageantry 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z In one instance, fashion’s notion of incorporating Chinese influence into couture is to print dress fabric with calligraphic characters, either randomly chosen or faked. Review: In ‘China: Through the Looking Glass,’ Eastern Culture Meets Western Fashion 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But, he said a little sadly, “You cannot easily move a couture atelier to Los Angeles.” Los Angeles Is Becoming Paris Amid the Palms 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Daphne Guinness, the heiress and aficionado of outlandish couture, will introduce a makeup collaboration with MAC Cosmetics on Dec. 26. Making Beauty Their Business 2011-12-07T23:32:25Z British-born Day-Lewis, known for his meticulous preparation, threw himself into the project, studying for months with designers and making a couture dress himself. Daniel Day-Lewis bows out with twisted romance 'Phantom Thread' 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Inspired by the epic “Bal des Roses” and the grand events flowering in the 1950s after the lean war years, these were pieces as “haute” as couture. Special Report: Fashion: 3 Weddings and a Dior Carnival 2011-07-04T18:10:04Z Dior changes its face A model wears a creation by fashion designer Raf Simons for Dior, during his Women's Fall Winter 2013 haute couture fashion collection, during fashion week in Paris, France, Monday. Dior changes its face 2012-07-03T00:45:00Z The French fashion flag was flying on the Golden Globes red carpet Sunday night, with some of the best-dressed women in Hollywood in Paris haute couture. Golden Globes 2015: French fashion shines on red carpet 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Hate couture: Wrapping yourself in the Confederate flag. Week 1134: The ‘Sty’le Invitational Red‘ux’ 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Still, Sorbier's revolutionary spirit didn't spill over to the day's other shows, which remained, in true couture style, invitation-only events attended by an extraordinarily well-heeled insider audience. Couture ends with revolution, as masses enter show 2011-07-06T22:46:06Z Day-Lewis, known for his meticulous preparation, studied with designers for months and made a couture dress in preparation for his role as designer Reynolds Woodcock. From sewing machine to silver screen: meet the amateurs who acted with 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The sale to Seibu-Saison was made in a joint venture with Hermès, which dismissed Mr. Scherrer from his couture house two years later. On the Runway Blog: Jean-Louis Scherrer, Retired Couturier, Dies at 78 2013-06-20T19:11:42Z Psychologically, then, couture is necessary, maybe more than ever. Fashion Review: Couture Is Fun but Not for All 2012-07-06T17:45:23Z When he announced his decision to shutter his ready-to-wear division and focus on haute couture, he referred to the relentless schedule of shows and collections that a designer must follow to feed the market. As Jean Paul Gaultier takes a bow on ready-to-wear, a look back at a fashion agitator Whether or not the designer finds a nest in a couture home, or develops women’s wear from his own signature men’s line, his fashion voice is too powerful and too important to still. Fashion Review: Raf Simons at Jil Sander and Tomas Maier Redefine Sensual 2012-02-26T18:29:25Z Haute Stuff When I got my first big job in fashion in the 1980s, couture was called "a laboratory of ideas." T Magazine: Haute Stuff 2012-10-15T13:00:07Z The House of Worth was once a noble name in couture. Fashion Review: Chanel Takes Flight and Givenchy Shows Craft at Paris Couture Week 2012-01-26T07:58:01Z France’s former First Lady Valerie Trierweiler, meanwhile, took politics to the catwalk, using couture week as a platform to raise awareness for the missing Nigerian schoolgirls in the latest example of red-carpet activism. Theron, Penn dazzle Dior as fashion gets political 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z The brand, owned by Spanish perfumer Puig, announced this month that it will focus its efforts on haute couture, perfume and industry collaborations. As Jean Paul Gaultier takes a bow on ready-to-wear, a look back at a fashion agitator Ms. Hudson sparkled in Armani at the designer’s couture show in Paris last year, perched near Sophia Loren and next to the just-minted Oscar winner Jared Leto. Her Films May Flop, but Kate Hudson Remains a Fashion Star 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z A decade ago, Balenciaga determined what was cool, with styles like cargo pants, but Mr. Ghesquiere wanted to explore other areas, like new materials and Balenciaga’s couture legacy. Fashion Review: In Paris, Designers Hit the Redial Button 2010-09-30T23:10:00Z She often wore couture by her friend Oscar de la Renta, whose fashion house used scraps of her fabrics to create three dresses and five handbags, then donated them for the auction. A Collection of Many ‘Things’ Comes on the Auction Market 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Its offerings include haute couture, emerging designers, “occasion” dresses, jewelry, bags, shoes and accessories. Moda Operandi: A Haven for the Haves 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The mix of high and low fashion, she said from the stage, was inspired by Valentino couture. Brand Camp for Kids 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Vintage perfume bottles, Christmas cards, magazine cover illustrations and, perhaps most important, a selection of original haute couture Dior dresses that inspired the artist during his time at the house, give the drawings more depth. Fashion File: Ren? Gruau Retrospective; Rodarte's New Sideline 2010-12-06T12:20:00Z In 2014, the gowns are objectively gorgeous pieces of emotionally fraught couture. Historic Mourning Clothes on View at the Costume Institute 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z But the biggest joke of all was that the fusion of this cut-up couture looked pretty good. Special Report: Haute Couture: Carven, Worth and Olivier Saillard 2010-07-06T17:38:00Z By putting her naturally orderly character into action, she is, in effect, tainted—preternaturally clean in moral bearing and crisp couture, but soiled with the demands of power. “The Intern” Is a Very Strange Workplace Fantasy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Moreover, Ms. Johnson purchased all of the garments, some 8,000, from European couture houses and many in New York. On the Runway Blog: Eunice Johnson and the Best Dressed List 2012-08-03T17:39:05Z If Paris couture is about history, craft and masters, the new Mugler is about nonspecialists, quick communication and downgrading the role of technique and craft, at least in the heavy, earnest sense. At Mugler, Genius and Its Limits 2011-03-23T22:23:43Z The state is setting aside funds for literary translation, official ministries are supporting the cinema, international organisations are investing in enormous cultural projects and haute couture companies are opening art galleries. Literature does not stop at national borders 2013-02-27T13:59:46Z And yes, there are clothes — magnificent examples of couture and costuming, including some of the exact pieces worn in the paintings. John Singer Sargent, À La Mode 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z The drawings he showed me started with 19th-century bustles and court uniforms, progressing through to Edwardian tea gowns and Norfolk jackets, and a final array of 21st-century couture. Lez Brotherston: design, dance and Diaghilev 2012-10-14T19:00:05Z He was offering, with some provocation, a defense of his latest character — a brilliant, mercurial midcentury couture designer at the center of Paul Thomas Anderson’s lush new psychosexual drama “Phantom Thread.” Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson on How They Created ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z The event was part of the Oriental Fashion show held on the sidelines of the city’s haute couture fashion week, which showcases designers from Asia and the Middle East. Covered on the catwalk: modest fashion struts its stuff in Paris 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The couturier's presence on the highly restricted calendar might demonstrate the relaxing of couture rules - for decades the realm of mainly the Europe-born. Gaultier channels Winehouse, stars shop for Oscars 2012-01-25T23:41:17Z “Our goal was a perfume with personality, style and quality, not just a huge launch with lots of ads,” she says, “so we used very precious and rare ingredients, just like a couture collection.” | Scents of a Woman 2010-08-26T16:15:00Z A longtime resident of Los Angeles, Ms. Leslie worked in later years as a couture designer, with her own line, and devoted time to charitable causes. Joan Leslie, a Hollywood Girl Next Door, Dies at 90 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. West and Ms. Fox sit in the front row at the Schiaparelli couture show, where she smokes a vape throughout, and flood Instagram with their antics. What Is Going on With Kanye West? A Timeline 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Coddington: I think they gave me a big discount and I probably spent all my money there, but I have never owned couture. Known for photos, Vogue's Coddington pens memoir 2012-11-20T20:31:14Z Of course, the reality of haute couture is that, for most, it isn’t a reality at all. Fantasy Made Real 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “She taught me how to appreciate vintage design and stylistically beautiful interiors and couture,” she says. Kitsch confidential in New York 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s the Sunday before the house’s haute couture show. | The Day Before Dior 2012-01-23T18:07:31Z Sweaters were modeled by joyful children, and Chanel haute couture was depicted in illustrations. Remembering Grace Mirabella and Her Inventive Magazine 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z But Mr. Lagerfeld excelled himself in taking the historic dressmaking skills of haute couture and making the result look like they belonged to the 21st century. Fashion Review: Chanel's Kinetic Look at a New World 2013-07-02T17:11:40Z His designs are not imitations of classic couture, but rather are something wholly new. Fashion Review: Milan Steps Out of the Back Seat 2010-09-27T23:01:00Z Like Cage’s letters, the photographs herein are all about relationships: sometimes between dancers, but mostly between a dancer and an item of couture. The World of Dance in Letters, Locations and Clothes 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Dior, as befits its haute couture status, has a feeling for fabric. Bedazzled at the Place Vendôme 2012-07-09T12:37:02Z But some of the couture froth worn by actresses was aging. On the Runway: Cannes Fashion: Hurry Sundown 2011-05-20T18:59:08Z The pack of journalists ensured the heat was on for the Chinese-born couturier to impress in her first official haute couture showing. Gaultier channels Winehouse, stars shop for Oscars 2012-01-25T23:41:17Z As he revisited his past couture landmarks, Mr. Cardin all the while declined to repeat himself outright. Pierre Cardin, Designer to the Famous and Merchant to the Masses, Dies at 98 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z For her first appearance on the official French couture calendar, the designer showed only five new outfits; the rest of the collection was culled from past seasons. Special Report: Fashion: Looking Back to Look Forward 2011-07-05T17:06:34Z Still, for much of the show what he presented were sophisticated sports clothes in complex fabrications that, while admirably refined, only served to underscore the reality that couture sportswear is an oxymoron. Staying in the (Fashion) Moment 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z And they started sending their unworn couture or worn once or seldom worn couture for me as gifts thinking I would play dress up. How a little girl’s ‘pretty dresses’ became one of the most significant gifts to the Met 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Some designers regard haute couture as too rigid and steeped in the past to be of much value today; the action is in ready-to-wear and ever-changing accessories. On the Runway Blog: Not for Everyone 2012-06-29T17:35:13Z Did Cristóbal Balenciaga have a dark side to his Spanish couture grandeur? Special Report: Fashion: Down and Dirty: Balenciaga and Balmain 2010-09-30T18:09:00Z The French couture house recreated the Parisian apartment where founder Coco Chanel lived in the early 1900s and where collections were once presented, as models strutted down a reconstruction of its famed winding staircase. Birdcages and pearls galore at Chanel's craft-heavy fashion show 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Haute couture week is a period that is surreal even in the most prosperous of times. Versace, Dior and the Reality Gap 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z “It’s a mix of haute couture and Belgian chocolate,” said the costume’s creator Sixtine Anne de Molina, adding she spent five months working on the design, which includes a thousand pieces of chocolate. Fashion meets chocolate on Belgian catwalk 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Just battering ram shoulders, hips constructed with couture nips and tucks — the ordinary transformed into something entirely other. Balenciaga Occupies Wall Street 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z This time around, for the first time in a long time, the vast majority of the couture houses were in agreement, at least about the essential question it is their job to address. Paris Couture Review: Chanel, Dior, Armani Privé and More 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Fashion is more than business in France: it’s a mythology, a secular religion, a source of national pride, especially during Fashion Week, when the country recalls its history as the birthplace of haute couture. Op-Ed Contributor: High Fascism 2011-03-07T06:48:00Z Perhaps the story here is that a couture house is not built in a day. Fashion Review: Bold or Subtle, Skin Is In 2013-07-03T17:26:27Z In conjunction with the couture clothes, the Versace brand is offering high jewelry. The World of Couture Is Growing 2012-07-01T17:54:28Z Many of these dresses were beautiful, with their haute couture aesthetic and workmanship, like tiny zippers running vertically around a skirt hem. Special Report: Fashion: Louis Vuitton in Full Fetish 2011-03-09T18:28:22Z “I am signing a great talent. Natacha was trained in the couture ateliers, and she perfectly embodies the spirit of Chloé. She is daring, charismatic, joyful, confident, and knows where she’s going.” Chloé Names Natacha Ramsay-Levi as Creative Director 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Now, it’s time to do the highest level of couture fourrure. Karl Lagerfeld on Fur (Yea), Selfies (Nay) and Keeping Busy 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z We call first dibs on this @Dior couture gown! On the Runway Blog: Tweets We Loved From #Couture 2012-07-06T21:44:07Z In a pre-coronavirus world, hundreds of editors, clients, stylists and celebrities would have converged on Paris this weekend, clacking over the cobblestones in their kitten heels for the couture shows. The Unsung Heroes of Fashion, Now Mostly Unemployed 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z But she was thinking more about craft and artisanal work than the grandeur of haute couture. In Paris, Nature Meets Craft in Jewelry 2012-01-30T14:00:43Z Perhaps Paris, at the high point of the fashion pyramid with its haute couture, is shy of ancillary lines because prêt-á-porter was traditionally the next step down from the top. Chloe and Rykiel Secondary Lines Are Coming Into Their Own 2012-02-28T17:49:32Z Around 80 streetwear, couture, sportswear and high-end ensembles will be on display with photographs and video providing background on the garments’ design and creation. 21 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Stoat couture: Genuine furs at a lower price point. Week 1134: The ‘Sty’le Invitational Red‘ux’ 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z He had a pretty good haute couture show in January. Fashion Review: Dior?s Urban Sense of Luxury - Fashion Review 2012-03-03T00:06:10Z Krieps loved her fleeting insight into haute couture, appreciating, in particular, the sense that “time is stitched into each dress”. Actor Vicky Krieps: ‘I spent a whole day staring into greenery to avoid Daniel Day-Lewis’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Not only are they draped with itemised haute couture and exorbitant trinkets, their fans are also later informed what de luxe food they were served at the gala dinners that follow a big premiere. Cannes 2013: Festival taps into the power of nostalgia to fight back against global competition 2013-05-18T19:04:38Z And if the carefully sewn silk gazar skirts and shirts embroidered with crystal collars that he showed were the couture part of the equation, then the photorealistic prints and mechanical black heels were the Pop. | Jason Wu 2011-09-09T20:33:35Z One comes from the couture tradition; one built his career on street wear. Is Virgil Abloh the Karl Lagerfeld for Millennials? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Unlike traditional Western couture, their designs do not hug the body, but instead create their own shapes. SAM’s ‘Future Beauty’ presents Japanese couture as art 2013-06-19T23:09:32Z And like Mr. Simons, the Givenchy designer went for peony pink in couture silks cut with graphic precision. Fashion Review: Fashion Review — Spring Men’s Wear Collections in Paris 2012-07-03T20:38:23Z Europe, for instance, was a kind of chic couture club reigned over by La Parisienne; the Americas was sporty, with an ice-cream colored hint of pop culture. On the Runway Blog: Dior: Letting Loose 2013-07-01T20:50:19Z Mr. Simons, of course, landed on his feet, or actually in a much better position at the house of Dior, where he showed a well-regarded couture collection, his very first, in July. On the Runway Blog: Sander's Return to Sander Receives a Warm Reception 2012-09-22T20:26:26Z Is there a mother in the rarefied world of couture who would not dream of getting her daughter into the spun-sugar party dresses? Special Report: Fashion: Reflecting on the Future 2011-01-25T18:18:38Z Taking nature beyond mere representation, the house turned reality into artistic objects — a process akin to the way that couture inspirations morph into high fashion. 2010-02-03T04:30:00Z The first haute couture collection by Marco Zanini was a fine effort, using the codes of the house, but not in a superficial way. Fashion Review: In Paris, Schiaparelli Returns to Couture 2014-01-20T14:47:27Z As with couture, the internal stitching never shows. For this acclaimed pastry chef, home tastes like a coffee cake 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z By any standards this was an exceptional Gaultier couture show, with its impeccably cut and very Parisian coats and suits that rarely went “back to black.” Fashion Review: Gaultier?s Couture Elegance ? With Eyeliner 2012-01-25T18:18:41Z She went to work for him in 1972, designing jewelry and hats for his haute couture and ready-to-wear lines. On the Runway Blog: Loulou de la Falaise, a Muse to Yves Saint Laurent, Dies at 64 2011-11-09T16:41:12Z And besides the two couture collections, two ready-to-wear collections, one cruise, one pre-collection, shoes, bags, costume jewelry and eyewear, she is going to be involved in image, ad campaigns and store design. Maria Grazia Chiuri Now at Dior: How It Happened. What It Means. 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z For a lady with greater wealth, it wasn’t unusual for her to commission haute couture mourning attire from no less a source than the House of Worth. Grief as a fashion statement in ‘Death Becomes Her’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art “It’s very much like couture,” Frey says of the tradition. | Woven in Time 2014-04-07T17:00:32Z It requires a scale of design that we associate with couture.” ArtsBeat: Last Chance: 'On Stage in Fashion' 2011-01-18T23:41:38Z This collection was notable for its unusual choice of colors - reds, tans, pale yellow, purple - and the fresh couture influence in shapes, especially coats, that Mr. Simons brings from women's fashion. On the Runway Blog: Down and Out During Paris Men's Fashion Week 2013-01-18T20:07:13Z All five or six couture dresses were sold for something like 20 dollars. How a little girl’s ‘pretty dresses’ became one of the most significant gifts to the Met 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Jenny Beavan’s costumes and Fiona Crombie’s production design, festooning posh department stores, bohemian thrift shops and couture palaces, engage the eye even when the characters wander through the city in search of coherent motives. ‘Cruella’ Review: A Disney Villain Gets a Backstory. It’s Spotty. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z There was nothing equivocal or compromising: It was the haute-est of couture. 2010-01-26T04:40:00Z Oddly, though, this was part of the charm along with the blend of casual with couture. The 2020 Emmys give us stars, just like us! At home, waiting for something good to happen 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z “For me, modern couture must have a feeling of mobility and the top of refinement,” Mr. Lagerfeld said. Fashion Review: Paris Couture Shows Stress Lots of Colors 2010-07-07T20:36:00Z They are statuesque and look haute couture in velvety black hoods splashed with citrus colors. In the Falkland Islands, a quest to see as many penguins as possible 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But you don’t need a back story to appreciate a well-made dress that winks at the modest style of late ’50s couture, offers the same eased-up fit, yet keeps its contemporary cool. Fashion Review: Diane Von Furstenberg, Thakoon, Zac Posen, Carolina Herrera, The Row, Derek Lam - Review 2012-02-14T00:37:06Z “I did,” I said, explaining that I had planned to catch the last few days of the men’s wear shows before couture started on Sunday night. On the Runway Blog: Sumptuous and Ubiquitous: Berluti and Will Smith 2014-01-19T15:35:13Z As air travel and lightweight luggage replaced ocean voyages and steamer trunks, society women lost interest in couture dresses and the girdles and fittings they required. Books Of Style: Balenciaga’s World of Mystery: Books of Style 2013-01-26T00:03:55Z It’s perhaps a result of the recent renaissance of haute couture, after years of critics sounding its death knell. ‘Calm’ Kardashian joins Emma Watson at Valentino 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Then she posed with a cast-member Minnie Mouse, also in Snow White couture. Disney's Fantastic Voyage 2012-06-01T18:10:44Z For decades, the progression of trends seemed predictable, if not inevitable: spawned in the European couture, they migrated into high-priced ready-to-wear collections and were finally adapted in watered-down versions for mass consumption. Fashion?s Military Invasion Rolls On 2010-02-20T05:10:00Z The Givenchy couture collection today consisted of just 10 outfits, all in white or off-white, with minimal touches of gold, and each far from the everyday, as you expect of couture. On the Runway: Earth Angels 2011-07-05T19:44:28Z Models walked the circular runway clad in bright reds, oranges, blues, and greens, themselves delicate flowers in Lagerfeld’s haute couture garden. Chanel’s Spring 2015 Couture Show Is A Garden Wonderland 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z But for the duration of the museum’s Pierre Cardin show, through Jan. 5, haute couture takes over with décor to suggest the Paris restaurant Maxim’s, owned by Mr. Cardin. Where to Eat and Drink at 14 N.Y.C. Museums Right Now 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z And I expect to see all their Globes pictures splashed across European gossip magazines next week during the Paris couture shows. On the Runway: Fashion Has a Moment at the Golden Globes 2011-01-17T15:51:56Z The artistic director at Christian Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, opened her couture show with a simple white dress resembling the peplos of classical Greece: a rectangle of cloth draped to make a flowing column. The Essay to Read If You Even Think About Wearing Clothes 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z It was to create feminine clothing with less formality and more freedom than what was being shown in postwar couture. At Chloé, Clare Waight Keller Pushes Femininity Forward, but It’s More Modern 2012-10-17T23:23:02Z She made her first Cannes appearance at the “Okja” premiere in an ivory Dior couture gown with a long matching coat and New Wave-style sunglasses. 15 Fashion Triumphs From Cannes Over the Decades 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z And hence too the hardware: zippers drawing metallic lines across the clothes and the geometric flaps giving a street edge to couture glamour. Special Report: Fashion: Taking the Long View 2010-10-04T18:40:00Z “But we wanted to keep the culture of couture in the shop,” Ms. Chiuri said, noting that the smell of the shop’s wood panels contrast with the perfume of the fragrance area. Vionnet and Valentino Offer New Shopping in Milan 2012-02-23T19:41:41Z “The difference is hard to put into words,” said Mr. Lagerfeld, who has been practicing couture since the ’50s, and was trained by people who learned the craft in the ’30s. Raf Simons’s First Dior Collection 2012-07-03T22:19:35Z The show mixes pieces selected from his couture line and ready-to-wear collections, alongside costumes for the theater and cinema. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z But the radical designer was never comfortable inside a shell of couture gentility. Pierre Cardin: One Step Ahead of Tomorrow 2010-03-22T21:00:00Z This season that contrast was so deftly interspersed with a couture, bow-trim elegance that the result was compelling. Tripping the Plastic Fantastic 2012-09-17T17:39:45Z “The feathers were dipped, the crystals were sewn,” said the nominee, extolling the work involved in the couture gown. Diverse shapes, sizes, colors dominate Emmys red carpet 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Lagerfeld leaned more heavily on the neutral of grey this season than on pure, classic black, the couture house's color of choice. Subdued elegance with ruffles and fringe at Chanel in Paris 2012-07-03T16:54:52Z It reminded me of a Saint Laurent haute couture coat I once drooled over. Those Pre-Season Jitters 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z His brand of ruthlessness is as perfect, uncluttered and elegant as Robin Wright’s couture wardrobe on the show. How similar to real life politics is House of Cards? 2013-07-04T02:13:44Z His July couture collection put Dior again in the spotlight. On the Runway Blog: Raf Simons and the Remapping of Dior 2012-09-28T16:56:12Z On Sunday, in an emotional coming home, Donatella Versace finally took an Atelier Versace couture show back to the Ritz Hotel in Paris - the last place she saw her late brother Gianni. Christian Dior changes its face in couture day 1 2012-07-03T02:46:04Z The bride wore an embroidered couture dress from Christian Dior whose ornamentation alone required more than 500 hours, at a cost estimated at more than $100,000. Melania Trump, the Silent Partner 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z As with hair color, communication is key during the creation of couture teeth, since the idea of “natural” varies widely. Skin Deep: When That Smile Is Too Perfect 2010-10-19T23:39:00Z And who says a guy who started out aiming to create a wearable dialogue between streetwear and ready-to-wear shouldn’t try his hand at couture too? Virgil Abloh’s Last Show 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Tisci, like Mr. Galliano an alumni of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, has climbed the steep learning curve toward the heights of haute couture at Givenchy. Galliano Said to Be Headed for Rehab 2011-03-02T14:51:32Z Consider intarsia lace, a specialty couture technique that involves piecing together lace and rich silk, which is used liberally in both their couture and ready-to-wear collections. In Italy, Standards of Excellence 2012-11-15T06:07:03Z Here are the exquisite couture gowns with appliqued flowers from her favorite houses of Dior and Valentino. Special Report: Fashion: Elizabeth Taylor?s Wardrobe and Jewelry To Be Auctioned 2011-09-12T11:40:48Z And Yin didn't fail: introducing a new fascinating couture technique of fox fur shaving - alongside a skilled demonstration of embroidery and her signature draping. Gaultier channels Winehouse, stars shop for Oscars 2012-01-25T23:41:17Z New York fashion is often dismissed as “commercial” and not as “creative” as fashion in Paris and London; it’s born out of Seventh Avenue and the garment district rather than couture ateliers and art schools. What’s New York Fashion Really About? 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z “I am interested in the range of possibilities offered by a craft that is now midway between couture and sculpture,” she said. Special Report: A Cut Above: Designing With Feathers, the Old-Fashioned Way 2010-11-18T22:40:00Z Jones had no interest in the frills of women's track: the shimmering makeup, the long painted fingernails, the couture outfits. Marion Jones: 'I'm a sucker for a challenge' 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z For example, DressX was envisioned to “create a new use case for clothing,” Ms. Shapovalova said — a way for “every person on the planet to wear couture.” What to Wear in the Metaverse 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Amsale, whose bridal atelier is on Madison Avenue, offers a more couture experience in her collection of bridesmaid dresses. Where to Find Bridesmaid Dresses for Less 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z His couture show was ambitious and lively: 45 looks in his dressy style, including flower-embroidered shifts and flowing evening dresses in leopard- and jaguar-printed silk. On the Runway: Mr. Valli, Are You Ready for Your Close-Up? 2011-07-05T15:35:42Z Like a haute couture garment, "Chic!" is a finely crafted piece of work, a comedic romantic drama set within a frothy and sublimely funny caricature of the Parisian fashion world. 'Chic!' takes on Paris' fashion world with heart, humor and style 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Haute couture - a protected name - is an artisanal tradition invented by Englishman Charles Frederick Worth in the 1870s. Versace leads Paris’ haute couture revival 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z With the tiger instincts of any editor worth her salt, Snow insisted on marking her rank by going to the Paris couture shows alone. Diana Vreeland by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart – review 2013-03-01T12:00:01Z Mr. Wu can’t resist the couture shapes and feathery fluff, and his chiffon prints remain drenched in sweetness, but at least this time he showed some toughness. | Fashion Review: Peter Som, Richard Chai, The Row, Cushnie et Ochs, M. Patmos, Jason Wu, Kimberly Ovitz, Wes Gordon: Fashion Review 2011-09-10T01:07:02Z The women had moved in for the spring haute couture shows, like a temperance league. On the Runway: And Now Couture 2011-01-24T23:47:55Z “Black is not just black,” says Hayden, who started her career in couture fashion. 4 ways for homeowners to get the most out of trendy-but-timeless black 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Melania really did care for children as well as couture, Grisham convincingly insists — though well-meaning ideas, like sending young students in Malawi mirrors, were nixed by others at the White House: bad optics. Stephanie Grisham, the Latest White House Memoirist, Offers Apologies and Payback 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z They were at once decorative and industrial — and a nod, Mr. Simons said, to couture. Raf Simons: Feeling It 2010-06-27T01:08:00Z When Ms. Takhar left last November after disagreeing with board members and disappointing couture sales, The New York Post reported Ms. Parker was in tears. The Men (and Women) Who Would Be Halston 2011-09-03T03:16:49Z Modern in fabric, cut and outlook but with craftsmanship and detail reflecting haute couture — that was the aim at Valentino’s first men’s wear show on the runway since its current design duo took over. Valentino returning to the men?s wear catwalk 2012-01-13T14:39:08Z “I wanted this collection to be more affordable than couture and more accessible in terms of design,” says the designer, who played with a range of natural materials including wood, cord and horn. T Magazine: A Date with Bruno Frisoni 2010-10-19T22:07:00Z In an effort to further reach out to female fans, Eckstein is organizing a fashion show for “geek couture” at this year’s Comic-Con. Fangirls Rule Comic-Con 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z “My career started when I won the couture award at a modeling contest. I didn’t even know what ‘couture’ meant.” ‘We Fascinated Them’: Shailah Edmonds on a Golden Era of Black Models 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Alone in the back seat of a rented Bentley in her Anna Maier couture wedding gown, with only the car’s driver for company, “I had no phone, and no watch,” she said. They Waited 5 Years (and 45 Minutes) to Marry 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The couture brands have historically been better at big sizes, because there are more layers of complication; a bra that costs £80 will have twice as many components as one that is £40. Are women's breasts getting bigger - or is it just our bras? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z As an ambitious bourgeois anxious to become a man of the world, he expanded the business into the more glamorous milieu of haute couture in the 1870s. A Look at Fashion Designer Jacques Doucet's Collectibles 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z It has been four years since Mr. Lacroix, 61, showed his last couture collection, which he did on a virtual dime. On the Runway Blog: Lacroix Resurfaces at Schiaparelli 2013-04-17T14:43:24Z But it was the couture handwork that moved the show up a notch, the drapes in compass swirls contrasting with geometric crystal patterns that, on the bodices, looked like tattoos on the skin. Fashion Review: At Versace, Grace Jones Meets Lady Gaga 2014-01-20T10:07:39Z So far, so sporty, with elegantly cut dresses and flat bows at the bust to give a 1960s couture touch. Tripping the Plastic Fantastic 2012-09-17T17:39:45Z Two months went into the making of this Schiaparelli couture gown, which Ms. Fonda wore at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival premiere of “Youth.” Jane Fonda: The Reluctant Fashionista 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z It also came from the fashion — Molly’s couture work wardrobe, Issa’s chic political T-shirts — and from the dazzling array of natural hairstyles. ‘Insecure’ Broke Ground by Embracing Imperfection 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z And there was something noble about a fresh take on the Margiela leather jacket, deconstructed into straps and probably taking long too long to make by hand as a work of classic couture. Special Report: Fashion: 3 Weddings and a Dior Carnival 2011-07-04T18:10:04Z So perhaps it would be more accurate to say that’s where a new era of couture shows, one with a different promise of what is possible, began. A Black American Designer Disrupts the French Couture 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z He told me he sold more pieces last season than in any year since he started doing haute couture. Paris Couture: Gaultier's Dragons 2010-07-07T16:54:00Z Certainly among journalists there was a sense that his involvement with a collection — ready-to-wear or couture — could be limited. On the Runway: LVMH Chief Says Galliano Will Not Return 2011-06-25T17:16:07Z Actresses have significantly more selection now, with even designers in haute couture like Mr. Tisci getting involved. Pregnancy Takes a Turn on the Red Carpet 2013-05-15T22:24:07Z Next Thing: After showing for the first time at Paris couture week last year, Mr. Baginskiy plans to return this July. His Hats Are Worn by Bella Hadid and Madonna 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z She remembers the last time that she visited Milan she found inspiration from a woman who she saw bicycling ... while wearing high couture clothing and heels. Nordic Fashion Biennale in Seattle 2011-09-28T22:04:57Z Now, though, couture seems like paradise — a think tank but way more fun. Fashion Review: Couture Is Fun but Not for All 2012-07-06T17:45:23Z There was a nod to couture craftsmanship in a knee-length cream dress with myriad organic looking leather appliques. Fashion spotlight shines on Ferragamo's Giornetti 2012-06-15T11:22:09Z About 80 people, all the usual suspects, were invited the dinner, held in the couture salon. On the Runway: Paris: Sing Out 2011-03-06T01:00:06Z The collection that goes on sale in May is based on wicker work, like the chairs that once were used in the couture salon. In Paris, Nature Meets Craft in Jewelry 2012-01-30T14:00:43Z “I was often accused — when people did not like my work — of doing couture that was too ‘theatrical,”’ said the designer. What Christian Lacroix Did Next 2011-10-31T12:22:19Z Jackets and pants, but primarily dresses, suggested couture before it left for fantasy island. Special Report: Haute Couture: Mix-And-Match 2010-07-05T17:36:00Z It was a couture look from Spring 2007, but it was also something Bündchen had worn before, in a spread from Vogue Korea that same year. At the Met Gala, old clothes are the newest thing 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z But his men’s wear will be shown live during haute couture next week. Louis Vuitton Follows Sports Trend in Men’s Paris Show 2012-06-28T18:03:39Z “No one is buying Chanel couture who would normally shop at J. Crew,” she said. Narciso Rodriguez Goes to Prom 2011-06-01T18:21:48Z “It was a time when the American stores were still buying the couture to be recopied,” Mr. Grumbach said. On the Runway Blog: Jean-Louis Scherrer, Retired Couturier, Dies at 78 2013-06-20T19:11:42Z She was spotted that first summer by the directress of the couture salon, Sally Aminoff, who encouraged Bloom's taste and skill with clients. T Magazine: Secret Sharer 2012-11-22T19:00:53Z Parsons owns several Gimbel originals in its study collection, which students use to understand techniques of couture construction and concepts like timeless design. Front Row: Sophie Gimbel’s Designs on View 2013-01-16T22:51:50Z They were couture shorts, in bubble-light silk or organza jacquard, embroidered in crystal and baguettes, paired with matching jackets covered in sequins and sparkles. New and Old at Armani Privé and Maison Margiela 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Two men in 17th-century couture stood frozen in a sword fight, their muscular calves exquisitely sculpted in white tights. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z “It’s all about Pop Art and couture shapes from the 1950s,” said the designer, referring to his inspiration for vivid colors and voluminous, airy shapes and to an artist’s work that enriched prints. Special Report: Fashion: Victoria Beckham, Alexander Wang and Lacoste bring color and a sense of digital exploration to New York Fashion Week 2011-09-11T17:37:04Z If sneakers have cracked the rarefied world of couture, where can’t they go? Sneakers: Where Can’t They Go? 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Blurring the lines of haute couture, theater and film much as Lagerfeld was known to do, the event consisted of live performances and dramatic readings montaged with a short documentary. Chanel, Fendi host tribute to grand couturier Karl Lagerfeld 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z There are also pieces from Gaultier's couture collections, which often feature sailor stripes. Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition headed to London 2013-03-06T12:31:05Z And I see that as creative as when I’m draping one of my couture dresses.“ | Cuing the Carnival Music. And Iggy Pop, Too. 2010-09-15T16:17:00Z Nearly a decade has passed since Mr. Lacroix retired from fashion following the bankruptcy of his namesake couture house. Christian Lacroix Puts Opulence into a ‘Midsummer Night’s’ Ballet 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Our wallets never felt fat enough to venture to the Urbanauts’ suggested couture house, or to visit their international jeweller friend, who does a special line in eyepatch bling. Hitting a different note in Vienna 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The exhibition contained still more, filling the Medieval galleries with couture and priestly finery. The Scene Inside the Met Gala 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z A few years ago, just as the recession hit, the Chambre Syndicale, the French fashion authority, decided to separate the June men’s shows and the haute couture by a week. On the Runway: Where Did the Fun Go? 2011-07-01T17:27:20Z It’s a piece that says as much about his love of couture details as it does her mastery of the Asian art of lacquering. A Look at Fashion Designer Jacques Doucet's Collectibles 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Toward the end of his couture apprenticeship he alighted on an opportunity to found his own fashion house when a theatrical costumer with an attic workshop in the Madeleine neighborhood shuttered his business. Pierre Cardin, Designer to the Famous and Merchant to the Masses, Dies at 98 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Ms. Oropesa slips into the title role as if it were custom couture. Review: In ‘Manon,’ a Soprano Charms Her Way to the Top 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Marina Ermoshkina, a Russian television host, typically fills her Instagram with glamorous selfies: couture clad on red carpets; bikini clad on Riviera beaches; smiling aboard yachts. The Shock of Chopping Up a Chanel Bag 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Part of the problem may be that for years, from its birth in the late 19th century under Charles Frederick Worth, a.k.a. “the father of couture,” high fashion was largely the province of the grown-up. Fashion’s Two-Faced Relationship With Age 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z In public appearances, she is unerringly stylish: hair closely cropped and bleached white, flamboyant couture, numerous ear piercings. How Cynthia Erivo took the US by storm – with a little help from Aretha and Oprah 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The pleating, which took about five months to get right, was an ingenious way to give a couture technique a sporty attitude. Fashion Review: Young Designers Lead the Way at London Fashion Shows - Fashion Review 2011-09-21T17:58:26Z There is another aspect to the mystery of James’s couture: its construction. Charles James Couture, Come Alive 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Simons has obviously looked at haute couture, past and present, and asked how it can be modern and also heart-racing. Fashion Review: Jil Sander, Bottega Veneta and Prada Highlight a Strong Milan 2012-02-27T23:42:53Z At Chanel haute couture, a classic narrow pump gets saucy and substantial with four ankle straps in silk cord and a spine that slithers up the ankle. | Chanel 2012-01-24T17:46:08Z Elsewhere, designers are struggling to decide whether couture is about high fashion or high concept, taking style into the realm of art. Fashion Review: Cabinet of Curiosities 2013-07-04T16:56:14Z Showing as night fell on Paris, this haute couture collection brought a somber elegance that recalled the more apocalyptic Chanel ready-to-wear. Special Report: Fashion: Chanel: The Art of the Dark 2011-07-06T14:29:17Z “Haute couture and haute cuisine are a recipe made in heaven,” Bottura told reporters. Feeding the fashionistas: Gucci turns to fine dining 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z An Eye That Brides Rely On Mark Ingram found his way to his own couture bridal shop by way of 20 years working for others in the clothing industry. The Royal Wedding 2011-04-25T18:28:01Z The crazy days of Galliano shows, offering couture as theater, belong to another era. Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z French fashion publications advocated a deep connection between the cultural splendor of couture and Frenchwomen’s national, even genetic identity. Op-Ed Contributor: High Fascism 2011-03-07T06:48:00Z Sixty-four different sneakers, with approximately 30 hours of handwork in each, courtesy of the couture shoemaker Massaro. The Season of Peak Sneaker Silliness 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z A single from it, “Hurricane,” earned haute couture clout when it was featured in a Gucci ad campaign. Pop & Rock Listings for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Just a month after the release of the James Cameron blockbuster, he injected strains of its Edenic imagery into his couture collection. Film and Fashion: Just Friends 2010-03-04T16:34:00Z The real art, however, was in the elevation: using classic couture techniques to fool the eye into seeing something entirely contemporary. New York Fashion Week Comes to Life With Thom Browne and Proenza Schouler 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Full disclosure: I’m a fashion philistine who tends to find people who coo over couture to be utterly insufferable. Rachel Zabar, Scion of Saul, Eschews Lox for Vintage Couture 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z No one could describe Donatella Versace as backing off from her position as displaying the most flamboyant expression of hyper-femininity in the couture universe. Dior Says It With Flowers 2012-07-02T17:48:48Z The kid who's wimpy whupped the teen girls whose couture is skimpy. Box Office: Wimpy Kid K.O.s Sucker Punch 2011-03-27T06:50:00Z It made for a fine collection with just enough edge to energize the couture quality of beautifully constructed clothes. Special Report: Fashion: Addicted to Love 2011-02-13T17:19:03Z She aims to align fashion not just with the society women who still want couture clothes, but also with the crafts that are the heart and fashion soul of Italy. Resurgence of Rome With Art and Craft 2012-07-16T14:01:05Z The synergy was perfect between Victoire de Castellane, Dior’s jewelry designer, and and his haute couture, for both were captivated by the idea of making flowers contemporary. Jewelry With Stories to Tell 2010-07-12T11:20:00Z It promised to be a special show: the debut couture collection for Jean-Raymond, the first Black American designer asked to join the couture calendar. Storms thwart outdoor Pyer Moss show, forcing postponement 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The first was in the front row of Chanel’s haute couture show earlier this year. | The New Faces of Chanel and Givenchy, Beyonce’s Latest Overnight Success and Nicki Minaj’s Naughty Birthday Surprise 2013-12-13T22:52:13Z Dutch design duo Viktor & Rolf were back on the couture calendar in fine form on Wednesday, producing a typically thought-provoking series: The case of the ghostly, shrinking models. Race, age, weight: Valentino backs diversity in Paris show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z He wove metal, literally, into canvas and cotton, so collars and shoulders were scrunched up into sculptural shapes that transformed the simple act of pushing up a sleeve into the puffy, graceful ghost of couture. Why Is an Italian Luxury Brand Having a Show in Michigan? 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z I had an option on a video that one of the brands was going to do instead of a couture show, but it didn’t work out. The Unsung Heroes of Fashion, Now Mostly Unemployed 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Frédéric Tcheng’s “Dior and I” is a behind-the-scenes study of the creation of the designer Raf Simons’s first haute couture collection for the House of Dior. Critic’s Notebook: The Tribeca Film Festival Begins Its 13th Season 2014-04-15T16:18:57Z The Oscars are Hollywood’s greatest holiday, a celebration of haute couture and self-congratulation as actors fine-tune aggrandizing speeches about the vital importance of film, and the industry that made them famous. Opiate for the Masses: Jimmy Kimmel may be the right prescription for a politically charged Oscar night 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Taking as inspiration the period when women began to reject corsets and embrace an emerging modernism, the Vivier couture collection included a purse frilly with lingerie, contrasting with a roughly sanded crocodile bag. 2010-01-25T19:19:00Z In Horan’s case, that means a bit of golf and acoustic guitar, while Payne is shown mixing music on his laptop, and Styles tries on some haute couture. Watch One Direction's 'Perfect' Music Video 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z And she paired empire-waist tunic dresses encrusted with blooms with matching encrusted knickerbockers — like leggings, the couture version. Falling for Couture’s Gravitational Pull 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z The airheaded male models played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in the 2001 couture comedy "Zoolander" are set to catwalk their way back to the big screen Feb. 12, Paramount Pictures announced Tuesday. 'Zoolander 2' confirmed at Fashion Week; will strut its stuff in 2016 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z If the Chanel gown was a nod to her guests’ home country, it was also a major fashion flex, demonstrating her membership in the elite circle of couture clothing buyers. Perspective | At the state dinner, Jill Biden stays understated 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z And one more thing: the fall of haute couture to me came the night of one Met gala where Sarah Jessica Parker wore a Chinese headdress that... Imagining a World After Anna 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z She delivered again, face stripped of makeup and disrobing from her couture to wear a simple black t-shirt and ripped jeans to perform "Hold My Hand" from "Top Gun." How the Academy Awards managed to be both uplifting and disappointing -- everything, all at once 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z But Valerie Steele, a historian at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, saw Mr. de la Renta’s couture influence in his bright combinations and full skirts and sleeves. Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer, dies at 82 There is a gentility to much of the work, with a deliberate embrace of haute couture in the houndstooth tweed Edwardian suit from a 2003 homage to Christian Dior. Style: Feeling the Flow of Yamamoto 2011-03-14T13:01:10Z It is as though playing with couture has become a rite of passage. T Magazine: Haute Stuff 2012-10-15T13:00:07Z Luck favored him, too, with timely collaborations with Mattel Inc., where he created Black Barbies for 14 years: 16 glamorous dolls in a range of skin colors, dripping in Byron Lars signature couture. Byron Lars Is Still Here 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z And before eyes are rolled, remember that in 2012, at Raf Simons’ debut for Dior couture the walls were papered with one million flowers — without much thought about what would happen to them later. The Climate Crisis Crowds the Catwalks 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Having just left his role as creative director at Emanuel Ungaro, Mr. Deacon said that he was not sorry to leave the troubled house — but that he would miss working with the haute couture atelier. Special Report: Fashion: Mary Katrantzou, as London?s Summer 2012 Shows End 2011-09-20T18:00:53Z Mark Bridges won his second Oscar for costume design for the couture gowns of “Phantom Thread,” in which Daniel Day-Lewis plays a perfectionist tailor in midcentury London. Oscars 2018: ‘The Shape of Water’ wins best picture at awards show laced with social and political statements 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z It may be a stretch to think that Jennifer Lawrence will wear haute couture trainers with her Dior on the red carpet, but they seem totally reasonable with everything else. Browsing: Shopping: Designer Sneakers, Personal Perfumes, Nipponista and Isabel Marant Sunglasses 2014-02-05T22:24:34Z Mr. Jean-Raymond’s couture, which will now be exhibited at the mansion, was just the start. A Black American Designer Disrupts the French Couture 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Moore’s two-piece ensemble was from Mr. Simons’s fall 2012 haute couture collection, which was also his much-lauded first outing for Dior. At Emmys, Fashion Yields to the Heat 2012-09-26T19:57:33Z His haute couture collections were a breathtaking display of artistry and precision. Perspective | Karl Lagerfeld didn’t have a signature design — but he invented a new kind of designer 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z But bamboo can be much more of a couture fabric than a green one. 5 “green” products that aren’t as environmentally friendly as their labels suggest 2014-05-13T11:15:00Z The fact that Sidney Toledano, Dior’s chief executive, was hopping on a plane to China right after the show somehow sums up the distance of today’s couture from the Christian Dior days. Special Report: Fashion: Dior's Shadow Play 2011-01-24T18:23:15Z In one way, Mr. Jacobs’s bonded fabrics and synthetics — polyester blouses, fake fur and crocodile — suited his plan for a strict-looking silhouette along the lines of ’50s couture. On the Runway: About Those Fabrics 2011-02-18T23:26:34Z Knitwear, the second most important category after jackets, according to Bruno Pavlovsky, president of Chanel fashion, is so vital to the couture house that it bought in October the Barrie Knitwear company. Chanel's Scottish Touch Warms Up the Scottish Highlands 2012-12-10T15:00:58Z It certainly seemed to be in the diaphanous, white and haunting spring-summer collection from Valentino that ended Paris' haute couture week. Gaultier channels Winehouse, stars shop for Oscars 2012-01-25T23:41:17Z “And I don’t mean we’re making money with couture; we are not,” he said. Paris Couture: Gaultier's Dragons 2010-07-07T16:54:00Z The costumes by Sinner and Francine Brazeau are like couture birthday cakes that are more intriguing than the characters inhabiting them. 'An Invasion of Decency!': A wild pop-up performance in search of meaning 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The effect of her performance — as the difficult manager of her difficult brother’s couture dress business — stems in part from the chill she puts into her line readings. For Your Reconsideration: Supporting Whom Exactly? 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Yiqing, the founder of a Paris-based couture label that bears her name, is known for her intricate work on pleats, interwoven fabrics and a sculptural approach to volume. The Rebirth of Paul Poiret 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z She was a more conventionally glamorous figure, who wore high couture and straightened hair or wigs. Books of The Times: ‘How It Feels to Be Free’ Salutes Black Female Entertainers 2014-01-15T21:27:33Z But this time everything was stylish, fast-paced, with none of the complex cuts, dipping hemlines and exquisite but fancy embroidery that was his first stab at representing the couture house. Fashion Review: Raf Simons Designs a Dynamic Dior 2014-02-28T16:49:50Z The result of this haute couture summer 2013 collection was never the soaring, sensual bursting of fecundity that it might have been, because Mr. Simons is not that kind of designer. At Dior, Garden of Earthly Delights 2013-01-21T17:42:31Z And they were spending it, too, on roadsters and Parisian couture; there was a Tiffany’s counter at the local trading post. ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and Scorsese’s Bride Like No Other 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z They’re mostly physical: mincing down a school hallway in formfitting, scarlet couture under a parka; uttering the word “Peoria” then appearing there, as if the mother ship abandoned her. ‘Marry Me’ Review: Putting ‘I Do’ on the To-Do List 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Black velvet dresses, short or long, seemed fresh, while an overall slim silhouette hid the couture workmanship within. Special Report: Fashion: Plumes of Glorious Restraint 2011-07-06T17:21:47Z Michonet produced embroideries for Worth, often considered the founder of couture, and many of the oldest houses. Fran?ois Lesage Dies at 82; Led Couture Embroidery Atelier 2011-12-02T04:01:16Z “We call them couture cocktails,” Mr. Zvi said on a recent Saturday night, as he shook one of his inventions, which was cabernet-based and infused with red and yellow pepper and thyme. Bo?te: So an Herb Walks Into a Bar: Couture Cocktails in Miami 2010-06-11T18:36:00Z The wonder of Valentino is that it is on the cusp of “new” couture, yet the collections resonate with the past. Fashion Review: Cabinet of Curiosities 2013-07-04T16:56:14Z But it is the countess’s unconventional taste and bracing panache—all grounded in a technical knowledge of haute couture—that the Met celebrates. AD Reflects on the Style of Jacqueline de Ribes 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The young Frenchman, who's showing on the sidelines of the haute couture displays, was on-trend with his second-skin beige pants and a molded jacket covered in anatomical sketches that recalled Givenchy's skeleton jumpsuits. Fetching zombies at France's Julien Fournie 2010-07-06T22:20:00Z But given all the buzz it creates, I’m sure that couture is really good for business. Fashion Review: Haute Couture: The Fine Line 2012-01-25T22:09:21Z At a time when much of high fashion is highly influenced by image, whether iconic photographs from 1950s couture or new manipulated digital images, Mr. Simons's debut essentially asks people to trust their own eye. On the Runway Blog: Raf Simons Starts Triumphantly at Dior 2012-07-02T16:03:41Z To celebrate Fashion Week, the lounge will be serving special "couture cocktails" and "fashion tea" throughout September. On the Runway Blog: 10 Hotels to Rub Shoulders With the Tastemakers During Fashion Week 2012-09-06T05:59:31Z Ready-to-wear catwalks are more important in terms of orders than the industry's more exclusive haute couture shows. Galliano faces trial, Dior keeps the show going 2011-03-03T13:33:06Z Binge all eight episodes now or slowly take in the lush, meticulous backdrop that captures the contradiction of grim, postwar Paris and the world of haute couture. What’s on TV Friday: Ricky Gervais on Netflix and Revisiting Anna Nicole Smith 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The effort took many months and was, like the couture itself, labor intensive. Charles James Couture, Come Alive 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Her partnership with designer Yves Saint Laurent began in 1978 and continued through the end of his career, yielding stunning photographs of his couture creations worn by the top models of the day. Photographer Roxanne Lowit Captures the World of Yves Saint Laurent 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Haute couture is often a spiky affair, but white Plexiglas fangs poking out of a cap-sleeved mini-dress saw this taken to the next level. Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture 2012-01-24T00:17:19Z Jennifer Lawrence wore a navy silk taffeta dress from Dior's spring couture runway. On the Runway Blog: The SAG Awards Get a Lift 2013-01-28T17:10:09Z The fur and frayed organza blurred the taut silhouette, but are even the extreme temperatures of the messed-up planet going to bring ice queen couture dresses onto the streets? Special Report: Fashion: Louis Vuitton in Full Fetish 2011-03-09T18:28:22Z This dark, smudged look had become a signature of Ms. Fox’s around late January, when her attendance at a few Parisian couture fashion shows flooded social media. Julia Fox Will Come for You 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z With haute couture a shrinking industry, is there still a demand for the extraordinary and the exceptional? A Master of Embroidery Remembered 2011-12-12T12:37:05Z As a melodramatic TV fantasy featuring characters who do not always keep their clothes on, Game of Thrones does not seem the most obvious source of inspiration for haute couture. Fashion’s Game of Thrones fans bring the dragon queen onto the catwalk 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z All the delicacy, finesse and sweet clarity that should be the essence of haute couture appeared on the final day of the autumn/winter 2011 season. Special Report: Fashion: Plumes of Glorious Restraint 2011-07-06T17:21:47Z And even at some couture houses, there is a tendency to keep adding stuff or making constructions that look hard and aging. On the Runway Blog: Dior: Holding Couture to the Light 2012-01-24T15:59:02Z Even before his suicide in 2010, Alexander McQueen could fascinate and exasperate with his provocative, highly charged approach to haute couture. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z For as long as haute couture lasts, it will prove its worth by doing things that can’t be done anywhere else, and by opening dead eyes. Fashion Review: Paris Couture Shows Stress Lots of Colors 2010-07-07T20:36:00Z The contoured silhouettes with intricate seaming, embroidery and couture detailing looked deceptively more expensive than their retail price. Byron Lars Is Still Here 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Third, he was the only Black designer at the top of a heritage couture house at the time, prioritizing inclusivity when most of fashion barely knew the word. A Decade of Work, a Shocking Accident and a Bevy of Supermodels 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Within a minute of introducing them, she asked if he’d like to create windows for Colette for Paris couture. Saying Farewell to a Store That Changed Shopping 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Jones is a fop; his attire Shows the flair to which many aspire, But with haute couture tweeds From Milan, he exceeds What his ditch-digging job would require. Style Invitational Week 1088: Our winning F-word limericks! (No, not that F-word.) “Native voice is powerful and Native couture is a megaphone. These designers’ works demonstrate to visitors the contemporary strength of Native iconographies and sensibilities.” From New York, to Paris, to D.C.: Native American fashion gains ground, in spite of stolen designs 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Expectations were subverted — not just of who gets to access couture or who is included, but what constitutes a couture garment; the totems of the everyday and the street turned into elite objects. Falling for Couture’s Gravitational Pull 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z One might have craved a dash of madness but the elegant proportions were an admirable example of client friendly couture. Fashion Review: Dior?s Couture: True to Code 2012-01-23T18:05:24Z The Oscars are the pinnacle of celebrity theater, with attendees buffed to superhuman levels of glamour and sheathed in couture gowns. The Funny Woman’s Stylist 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z This season - granted only 2 episodes - has gotten lost between haute couture and Jamie being a lapdog. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Twice a year, usually around the time of the haute couture shows, he stages a performance. On the Runway Blog: Live From the V&A: What's in a Pose? 2012-01-20T07:01:11Z Highlighting it, however, is her collection of couture, Italian ready-to-wear and lavish screen costumes that will be auctioned on Friday at Julien’s Auctions in Los Angeles. Jane Fonda: The Reluctant Fashionista 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Sitting on the front row of the Italian designer's show, US Vogue Editor Anna Wintour quipped: "Doesn't couture always buck the trend?" Chanel aims sky-high, and Armani courts A-list 2012-01-24T23:03:20Z “I’ve been to Mr. Armani’s shows in the past, of course, but this is my first time seeing couture, and it was magical.” Scene City: A Giorgio Armani ‘One Night Only’ Party? Fashion Fans Can Expect a Long Night 2014-01-22T21:23:24Z Her fashion photography, which she started in the mid-1960s, came at a fortuitous time, with the rise of ready-to-wear, which brought the work of couture designers to the masses. Marilyn Stafford, a Photojournalist Rediscovered, Dies at 97 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z They also play to Mr. de Vilmorin’s strengths as a couture designer who leans into fantasy without being too saccharine; his imaginings are the twisted kind. Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Shoes 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Balmain has long since succumbed to the lure of couture denim — but more recently, it was down and dirty with torn surfaces but ritzy ornamental effects. Special Report: Fashion: Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga Mixes Heritage and Style 2011-09-29T17:18:23Z In Paris she brought fashion to the street, when haute couture would normally remain in the studio, and she set clothes by Givenchy, Dior and Chanel against crude graffiti. From Einstein to Couture, This 96-Year-Old Captured It All 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z It is also to show excellence, which includes the high standards of haute couture, and to enlarge its public. Special Report: Fashion: Gone Global: Fashion as Art? 2011-07-04T18:13:03Z Mr. Ungaro himself was of Italian origin, although he worked in Paris with the greats of haute couture, including Cristobal Balenciaga. Ungaro's Latest Revival 2012-09-24T18:47:07Z A more untamed style was resurrected for spring at the Givenchy couture presentation. Lisbeth Salander: Bringing Back Leather and Spikes 2012-02-01T21:36:05Z Later he worked in the studios of Elsa Schiaparelli and Dior, went into costuming and presented his first couture collection in 1953. Back to the Future With Pierre Cardin’s Space-Age Fashion 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The dancers look like busy mannequins, displaying Mr. McGregor’s new couture. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Premiere of ?Outlier? 2010-05-16T21:54:00Z It offers high-end contemporary furniture, sculptures and vintage haute couture clothing. At a Paris Flea Market, Tips for Treasure Hunters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z But he made a fine job of redefining the 1980s, using all the skills he has gained in his career in haute couture. Fashion Review: Then Comes the 4th Dimension 2012-09-30T17:54:41Z Surprisingly, for spring 2010 haute couture, he went with “Tragedy” as his theme. 2010-01-28T17:53:00Z The house poetically describes the techniques and the haute couture inspirations as “dressing the skin with diamonds.” Radiant Like the Dawn: Rose Gold Is in Vogue Again 2012-09-17T17:41:28Z So when he went to Paris in 1957, to study couture, he knew a lot about many things. Azzedine Ala?a: The Master of the Female Form 2010-12-09T00:04:00Z A year later, she was sent to Paris during the couture shows to shoot a photo essay with its fashion editor, Grace Coddington. Annie Leibovitz, the Un-Fashion Photographer 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The designer says that her recent mother of pearl and coral “sea” collection, although tagged ready-to-wear, is really a crossover with couture, which is why she does not envisage introducing a separate couture line. The World of Couture Is Growing 2012-07-01T17:54:28Z That annoying crinkling you hear isn’t the person next to you unwrapping cough drops; it’s the couture. New York City Ballet in a Broad Program at the Koch Theater 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Yet it would be a fine thing if Mr. Galliano could just once make the starting point of Dior couture not fashion’s sweet memories but a clean sheet of paper on which he writes 2010. 2010-01-26T04:40:00Z “How many people walk down the street in a couture gown?” he asks. Brows, contour, lips, lashes: How the ‘full-beat face’ took over the Internet 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z History also finds links that intertwine the two mighty Paris couture houses. Battle of the Champions 2012-09-26T16:12:13Z Her couture is severe and simple, the kind that only the knowing eye can identify as couture. T Magazine: Deeda Blair’s Elegance of Conviction 2013-05-31T17:00:11Z The honey-colored fabric — 440,000 square feet of woven polyamide covering the bridge and its 44 lamps — blended harmoniously with Paris’s urban palette, and the bridge’s artful draping was deemed worthy of a couture house. Christo, Artist Who Wrapped and Festooned on an Epic Scale, Dies at 84 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z And then there was red: Rachel Weisz, wearing floral Givenchy couture with a boxy cherry latex top, leaning into the domineering power of her role in “The Favourite.” Oscars 2019 Fashion: Hollywood Thinks Pink, Pink, and More Pink 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “It’s almost couture for children and we start with babies.” Gold dummies and cashmere tops: luxury befitting a royal baby 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z So perhaps that is why Mr. Tisci moved on – or rather, back — to couture excellence. Fashion Review: Stella McCartney 2011-10-03T18:27:47Z In Zoe’s past, we learn, she testified against a dangerous criminal, and before long her new world of fund-raisers and couture is punctured by an attempt on her life. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Critics said this new Dior couture collection cemented the view that Simons was making his mark at the fashion house with his original shoe designs with a particular focus on heels. Raf Simons goes psychedelic at Christian Dior haute couture 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Tonight she is in a gilled white dress that simultaneously suggests a Valkyrie bride and haute couture bandages. PJ Harvey ? review 2011-03-06T00:09:25Z This week, as Mr. Jones introduces his debut couture show for Fendi, everyone will find out. Kim Jones Wants to Rule the Fashion World 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Following a strong couture show in July, the design duo seem to be right in the groove at Valentino. Fashion Review: Karl Lagerfeld Sends Out a Pearl of a Chanel Show 2011-10-04T17:38:09Z Among her innovations were a spree of synthetics, including tree-bark rayon crepe and a glassy material called Rhodophane; couture garments that combined lace and suede, and even latex; and extreme tailoring, described as “hard chic.” Schiaparelli and Prada Connected With Women?s Inner Feelings 2012-04-11T22:01:05Z Draped dresses, always with a couture attitude and a hint of 1940s Hollywood, were in contrast with straight-line embellishment of flowers on elongated stalks. Special Report: Diversity and Irony 2010-02-23T18:30:00Z “Hendrix in Britain,” which opens at the museum on Wednesday, displays his black hat with a purple ribbon and an orange velvet coat from Dandie Fashions, a couture house that also tailored Beatles outfits. Antiques: Jimi Hendrix?s Death Is Recalled at Museums 2010-08-19T21:44:00Z Each tree revealed some astounding new characteristic of girth, bark tone, branch anatomy or moss couture. T Magazine: The High Life 2011-03-25T17:30:04Z But the designer Andrew Heather was looking even further forward — to next summer — with the collection he previewed during the couture season. A Collection from Couture Winter 2012 in Paris 2012-07-04T17:29:10Z Ms. Roitfeld also created an editorial for V magazine inspired by Elizabeth Taylor, and she appeared in a fashion story in W, portraying a couture client. The 9 Lives of Carine Roitfeld 2011-12-21T22:53:02Z On Sunday night, as the men’s shows wound down and the women moved in for couture, Mr. Browne created a commotion in a formal garden on the Left Bank. Fashion Review: Fashion Review — Spring Men’s Wear Collections in Paris 2012-07-03T20:38:23Z “Your boy has a jaw line for days,” purrs Lady Gaga’s The Countess, a blood drinking, haute couture wearing, child snatcher who lives in the hotel penthouse. ‘American Horror Story’ Recap: Lady Gaga Checks In 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In a suite at the Hotel Majestic Barrière in Cannes, every surface heaves with haute couture. Kristen Stewart on her directing debut: 'The best female film-makers are compulsive freaks' 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Then in 2002, the death knell sounded when YSL held his last couture show and the number of houses and clients started to shrink. Versace leads Paris’ haute couture revival 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z But more dramatic for Dior, and for the entire future of haute couture, is the problem of finding a replacement for Mr. Galliano. Galliano Said to Be Headed for Rehab 2011-03-02T14:51:32Z Earlier on Tuesday French couture house Chanel unveiled the last collection designed by its late creative chief Karl Lagerfeld, in an emotional tribute against the backdrop of a mocked up Alpine ski resort. Vuitton tops off fashion season with a museum mash-up 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z My favorite was the evening wear section where she kept her couture piece, an exquisite opera dress made of chartreuse taffeta with a hand-painted picture of a woman being dressed by her maid. A gay boy discovers his inner Faye Dunaway 2011-04-22T21:01:00Z The show, with a set of the gray and gilded salon architecture, generally showed a youthful, but classic, couture attitude. Fashion Review: Bill Gaytten at Dior Shows a Light Touch 2011-09-30T18:29:29Z The sheer, silly kitsch meets pop culture meets couture combination works surprisingly well. Barbie and Balmain Want to Make Toys the Next Big Fashion Frontier 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z His skill is in incorporating those couture shapes in an offhand way, and steering clear of English-garden prettiness. Fashion Review: In London Fashion, the Olympic Glow Continues 2012-09-19T19:37:35Z More than the Golden Globes or the SAG awards or the Independent Spirit Awards, the Oscars welcome extravagance; observers expect haute couture — or something close to it. The Oscars red carpet showed us the most diversity of the night 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z No doubt you picked up a few things between seasons, as one does, but you were not aware that you were buying into a special category that would soon be invasive, the kudzu of couture. On The Runway: In the Prefall 2014 Collections, Looking for Hints of Things to Come 2013-12-14T01:42:33Z Nonetheless, the mannered, hierarchical, jet-setting keepers of haute couture kept plugging away. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Simons Plants His Garden Six months ago, Raf Simons presented his first haute couture collection for Dior; he then followed with a hit ready-to-wear show that instantly restored prestige to the house's tailoring. On the Runway Blog: Raf Simons Plants His Couture Garden 2013-01-21T19:01:36Z The result was the meld of couture and sport that is emerging as a current look. Special Report: In Color and Shape: Who Dares Wins 2010-09-26T17:39:00Z "This show will bring them the experience of the best of couture," she said. Seattle Fashion Week has an international flavor in 2010 2010-05-11T20:48:00Z And in general, anyone hoping to make a success of “Funny Girl” has to follow the originator’s template, because it was created for her — you might almost say “on” her, like a couture gown. Review: In Lea Michele, ‘Funny Girl’ Has Finally Found Its Fanny 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Her frustration with finding a dress she loved that embraced all her curves, led her to design and sew her own couture gown. Get to Know These Black Bridal Designers 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z She told of the time when Mr. Kors met Mouna Ayoub, a generous collector of couture, at a cocktail party in the south of France. Young Designers Honored at CFDA Awards 2010-06-08T13:24:00Z When people talk about the difference between New York fashion brands and, say, Parisian fashion brands or Milanese fashion brands, they often talk about Seventh Avenue vs. the couture atelier, or sportswear vs. the flou. A New Chapter for Oscar de la Renta Begins With Baby Steps 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z When you have couture bridal shops and real estate spikes and a cultural renaissance, can you still claim to be the neglected stepsister? The Out of Towner: A Borough?s Pizza-and-Movie Tour 2012-03-08T23:30:07Z Dior once staged an haute couture show in a real Paris station. Fashion Review: McQueen, Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu Bring Paris Shows to a Close 2012-03-08T00:21:03Z Mr. Gaultier said that some things may change at his company, but that he would not consider touching the couture line. Gaultier, Under New Management, and Focus of an Exhibition, Has a New Lease on Life 2012-02-29T21:29:58Z There are only two great couture houses left in Paris, Chanel and Dior. Raf Simons’s First Dior Collection 2012-07-03T22:19:35Z He then rambled a bit about the new collection, and I gathered that it drew on the essence of Paris couture — shapes, silhouettes. Paris Couture: Gaultier's Dragons 2010-07-07T16:54:00Z “In terms of his theatrics, his elegance, his sensuality and his couture sense, he was unparalleled.” Scene City: Inside the Met Ball And After Parties 2014-05-07T17:53:58Z It has nothing to do with couture houses or red carpets. We Settle a Big Fashion Rivalry: Nashville vs. Columbus 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The diva sounded as terrific as she looked in a succession of couture gowns. A diva with many hats, Fleming delights fans 2010-12-14T16:19:34Z It’s like a page from a Restoration Hardware catalog, right down to the star herself, dressed in the couture version of the work-from-home uniform: chunky beige sweater, cream sweatpants, blinged-out Timberlands. Can Jennifer Lopez Save the Rom-Com? 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z The result was calm, gentle, more in tune with the elegance of Mr. Armani’s Privé couture line than with a wardrobe defined by a work ethic. Special Report: Fashion: Giorgio Armani Sends Out a Shimmering Collection 2011-09-26T17:07:04Z Most high-school sophomores don’t travel to Paris to attend the couture shows, but Gevinson insists that her tastes are pretty typical. Magazine Preview: How Sassy Is Tavi Gevinson? 2011-08-31T12:00:11Z It was the first time in fashion history that the street influenced haute couture. In the Biopic ‘Yves Saint Laurent,’ Fashion From the Vault 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Celebrity stylist June Ambrose, toting her two kids, bagged pleated trousers from Etro, while Girls star Zosia Mamet sifted through racks of couture clothing. Donna Karan's Haute $3.5 Million Hampton's Garage Sale 2013-09-05T13:02:00Z A couture atelier — Chanel has 200 workers in its atelier — works only on couture garments, while ready-to-wear has its own ateliers. Raf Simons’s First Dior Collection 2012-07-03T22:19:35Z Though critically acclaimed for her couture, Ms. Waight Keller struggled to find a voice in ready-to-wear. Matthew Williams, Collaborator of Kanye West and Lady Gaga, Is Givenchy’s New Designer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z The fabric covering the piece was embroidered by the couture house Lesage and includes colorful, sinuous lines recalling Art Nouveau. Review: At Salon Art + Design, What to Check Out 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The main innovation in the Pilati collection was a section of “couture” pieces, selling for 50 percent more than the already pricey Zegna main line but raising the bar of quality and style. Fashion Review: Stefano Pilati’s ‘Feeling’ for Zegna 2013-06-23T11:59:15Z Instead of feeding your mind, the couture shows often seem more intent on starving it. Fashion Review: Review of Couture Fashion Week: Raf Simons, Dior, Versace and More 2013-07-03T19:39:15Z Shorn of Mary’s royal couture, she is dressed down stylishly in black jeans and a T-shirt that declares “The good are never easy, and the easy are never good.” CW’s ‘Reign’ Raises Adelaide Kane to TV Royalty 2013-10-16T13:56:54Z Dolce & Gabbana has formally plunged into couture, too, showing the collection only to clients. T Magazine: Haute Stuff 2012-10-15T13:00:07Z It's my first couture outfit, and I suspect it will be my last. Patron behind the fashion treasury favors a relaxed Southern California matron look 2010-09-01T16:21:00Z Julien Fournie, who is going ahead with his on Tuesday, said his couture label managed to get ready by ordering fabrics way in advance. Dior's Grecian goddesses kick off Paris fashion extravaganza 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z That led to an apprenticeship with Cristobal Balenciaga, and then Mr. de la Renta moved to France to work for couture house Lanvin. Fashion icon Oscar de la Renta dies at 82 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The ballet world is a durable fashion theme, and Jean Paul Gaultier took it for a spin this afternoon as the fall haute couture season closed. On the Runway: Gaultier: Let's Dance 2011-07-06T16:46:21Z Her focus then shifted to the fabric, which she heightened with touches of couture. Calla Haynes Introduces Her Line, Calla, at New York Fashion Week 2012-02-08T22:47:55Z On air, Teresa Giudice was tacitly encouraged to show off her elaborate mansion and couture fashions — it made for great material. Why Teresa and Joe Giudice Ending Up in Prison Makes Perfect Sense 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Simons will show his first collection for the house during the July couture season, and what that will be is anyone’s guess for now. Front Row: Fashion Insiders Wonder Whether Simons Can Adapt at Dior 2012-04-11T17:12:59Z The couturier himself understood which way the fashion wind was blowing when he founded the first dynamic prêt-a-porter collection at a couture house. Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Saint Laurent: Revolutionary Romantic 2010-03-09T19:28:00Z Accompanied by portraits of lace-wearing notables, it ranges from the early 1600s forward, starting with samplers, borders and collars, through the opulence of Spanish and French court dress to a phalanx of 21st-century haute couture. Lace, That Most Coveted Textile 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z We're talking about the Met Gala, of course, where celebrities strut down the red carpet, donning haute couture for us to judge from the comfort of our own couch. The Met Gala: A look back at the 12 most outrageous looks from the grand event 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Designers around the world are expanding their empires beyond haute couture to include haute cuisine. The World’s Most Fashion-Forward Restaurants 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z This is theoretically spring, after all, at least in couture time. A Chanel for All Seasons 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Giornetti then spent a year in Roman couture, followed by studies at the London College of Fashion and at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. Ferragamo Takes Stage at the Louvre 2012-06-11T10:30:28Z The couture shows also saw the return of Josephus Thimister, whose red-splattered pants and well-done army jackets were meant to evoke the Russian Revolution. 2010-01-28T08:06:00Z With references to his own back catalog, and the tropes of couture. Marc Jacobs and the Ghosts of Fashion Past and Future 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Last week, when Mr. Lagerfeld admitted that it was difficult for him to describe couture, I was surprised. Fashion Review: Couture Is Fun but Not for All 2012-07-06T17:45:23Z Rollers even showed up at the couture debut of Pyer Moss in July, albeit in a more literal fashion, worn as a cape that took two weeks to create. How Rollers Became 2021’s Most Unexpected Hair Tool 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Halston’s genius was in taking the values of sportswear and raising them to the level of couture. Will We All Want to Be Wearing Halston Soon? 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Yet the most extraordinary feature of the Givenchy fall/winter 2011 couture collection was that all the dresses appeared long, slim and calm, in spite of the intense work put into them. Special Report: Fashion: Givenchy: Pure Is Beautiful 2011-07-05T17:12:09Z Valentino, a classic in the haute couture world, hits the runway on Wednesday night. Armani Privé sends pastel rainbow gliding down Paris runway 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z The designer began this journey by asking a key question: What is haute couture? On the Runway Blog: Dior: Letting Loose 2013-07-01T20:50:19Z There’s a real importance to getting dressed — and I don’t mean highfalutin couture fashion, I mean getting dressed every day. For Emma Stone, Being Bad Feels Awfully Good 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Shown on a mirrored runway, with columns covered in tufted ice-blue vinyl, the clothes evoked an obsessive interest in style, one associated with haute couture and Hollywood glamour of the ’30s, but also dominatrix fantasies. | Fashion Review: It?s Good to Know It?s Not All About Posing 2011-02-16T00:45:23Z French designer Stephane Rolland, who's built an enviable client roster since opening his exclusive haute couture label a little over three years ago, continued to show why he's become a favorite of princesses worldwide. Chanel's casual chic vs. Givenchy's extreme art 2011-01-25T23:56:11Z Whenever couture is shown in the house, in the grand salons on the third floor, an enormous throng of spectators and paparazzi gathers outside. On the Runway Blog: Dior: Holding Couture to the Light 2012-01-24T15:59:02Z I know that no dancers will be struggling under ponderous raven heads with huge beaks; Vicki's costumes have the elegance of couture. Raven Girl takes wing and flies onstage 2013-05-04T06:00:35Z At the foot of the atrium staircase is a large bronze statue of the ship’s mascot, Mademoiselle Minnie Mouse, outfitted in vintage cruise couture. Disney's Fantastic Voyage 2012-06-01T18:10:44Z On Friday, Raf Simons, 44, steps up for the second round at Dior, after a good start in the haute couture season. Battle of the Champions 2012-09-26T16:12:13Z When you look at her designs, you'll see references to fine artists, American explorers, Victoriana and classic fashion designers, both in European couture and American sportswear. New book highlights Sui's career of cool catwalks 2011-01-06T21:21:10Z The invitation-only event, famed for its A-list celebrities and haute couture gowns, is a fund-raising benefit for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and also marks the opening of the Costume Institute’s annual fashion exhibit. Lady Gaga wows on 'pink' carpet at Met Gala with four outfits 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z He also plans on introducing accessories for fall 2013, which he will showcase in Paris in February, after preparing for the couture shows in January. Basil Soda Is Trying to Make a Name for Himself 2012-11-27T21:50:33Z While Dior did not offer a new line for haute couture, it followed the flower focus, which is intrinsic to the brand and to the designer Victoire de Castellane. The Year of the Snake in a Bejeweled Garden 2013-01-28T13:56:12Z If this was not Mr. Gaultier’s most artful couture collection, it was because he was dealing with a single, dynamic personality. On the Runway Blog: Jean Paul Gaultier: All This Craziness 2012-01-26T06:10:05Z In Paris, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris in the actual house where he designed for almost three decades will open to visitors who may walk through his studio and haute couture salons. An Outpost of the Louvre and 2 Saint Laurent Shrines 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z And for all the hyperventilating about craft in the show notes, it was hard to see what made the navy jumpsuits and caped outfits couture, however pretty. Fashion Review: Couture Is Fun but Not for All 2012-07-06T17:45:23Z “People can’t see what couture is very well on a computer screen,” Raf Simons of Dior complained to Interview. Fashion in the Age of Instagram 2014-04-09T20:24:46Z Yet his own fashion training was a conventional apprenticeship in haute couture, where he learned his precise cutting skills. Pierre Cardin: One Step Ahead of Tomorrow 2010-03-22T21:00:00Z But as ready-to-wear brands push a ubiquitous kind of luxury - or, so it often seems - couture fulfills an altogether unique experience. On the Runway Blog: 20 Outfits, Coming Right Up! 2013-01-25T18:00:10Z From folkloric inspiration, Ms. Bisovsky creates a couture collection for private clients where she might use cross-stitch techniques or jet beads. In Seductive Vienna, a New Fashion District 2013-04-29T10:46:05Z Either innately or through study, McQueen understood that he was a story: working class wonderboy, hooligan of haute couture, aesthetic thug. 2010-02-12T03:15:00Z He gets the most and the best out of couture, and this is just the start. On the Runway Blog: Raf Simons Starts Triumphantly at Dior 2012-07-02T16:03:41Z Mr. Simons will be in charge of haute couture, women’s ready-to-wear and accessories, starting with the couture show in July, while keeping his eponymous men’s line. Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z The decor features rich leather wall coverings and curtains with couture embroideries, while the furnishings include tweed club chairs, a velvet sofa, and brass shelving. Peter Marino updates the Louis Vuitton boutique on Avenue Montaigne in Paris 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z As one of the few designers to show evening gowns on the runway, Mr. Posen’s fabrics and the craftsmanship were couture class. Special Report: Fashion: Diane Von Furstenberg, Tommy Hilfiger and Derek Lam Pour on the Prints and Color 2011-09-12T17:35:21Z The lauded designer opened Paris’ haute couture week on a breeze of soft A-line silhouettes. Dior changes its face 2012-07-03T00:45:00Z The Daily Dress | Christian Dior T's editor picks the fairest of them all from the spring 2013 couture collections. | Christian Dior 2013-01-21T22:05:07Z The sartorial link between dressmaker’s zipper and couture clothing is not a coincidence. Jewelry: Unzip the Bling 2011-01-31T14:40:04Z According to Kiledjian, 38, Paris’s dominance in the fashion world is largely upheld by the august couture houses that originally established the city’s reputation as a design capital, leaving little room for new designers. | Meet Kevork Kiledjian 2011-02-13T09:00:02Z He emerged from this vehicle in an extraordinarily large trouser ensemble, with open-neck shirt and sleeveless jacket, none of which gave me a sense of haute couture. My night with Gérard Depardieu: pipes, poems and a skinful ... of haggis 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The designer was not afraid of breaking the mould within often-pompous couture circles. Karl Lagerfeld: fashion's prolific commander-in-chief 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z It must expand our sense of what is possible in dressing — and this season he continued to explore shapes and fabrics more commonly associated with haute couture — but it must also be relevant. Fashion Review: Feeding Dreams of a Better Life 2011-01-26T23:51:16Z Full disclosure: I am totally biased here because I am literally obsessed with this Givenchy haute couture collection. Oscars 2011: Fashion royalty 2011-02-28T17:10:00Z Barbara oozes sex and what looks like serious class—Johansson makes Jersey Shore–tacky look like couture—but she doesn’t put out. Don Jon: Love, Lust and Loneliness 2013-09-27T00:00:44Z Taylor's couture gowns and apparel sale also set a record for the most valuable private collection ever sold at auction, taking in more than $5 million including commission. Taylor auction is a gem, sales top $157 million 2011-12-21T14:06:52Z And when he evoked Ms. Winehouse for his spring couture collection, he thrilled the critics, but offended her family. Gaultier, Under New Management, and Focus of an Exhibition, Has a New Lease on Life 2012-02-29T21:29:58Z His designs appear chic, in part because couture is imprinted on our memory, yet their outlook is fundamentally relaxed, and so modern. Fashion Review: Milan Steps Out of the Back Seat 2010-09-27T23:01:00Z Each is crafted with couture fabrics and elements, like glittering crystals and plumes of lace. New York Bridal Fashion Week Goes Virtual 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The other spring couture shows were good, but not as inspiring. Fashion Review: Spring Couture Collections in Paris — Fashion Review 2013-01-23T22:42:16Z Such books are like a fashion house’s haute couture, bestowing status on the publishers even though most of their revenue comes from products aimed at the masses. The Zervos Picasso Catalog Is Resurrected 2013-05-22T22:13:48Z The other model, which Mr. Strickler called the patronage model, is the couture or bespoke project. Fledgling Fashion Designers Use Fund-Raising Site to Raise Capital 2012-06-20T19:05:36Z The imagination and showmanship never drowned out his flawless tailoring, nor the subtle fluidity he learned during his period in Paris haute couture. Special Report: Fashion: The Savage and the Romantic 2010-09-20T17:36:00Z "Haute couture as we know it is almost something passe," he told The AP. The naked and the dead at Paris couture 2010-07-08T00:29:00Z And his namesake collection seemed to adopt a touch of the grandeur of the couture house. On Top of the World 2013-01-17T17:58:13Z It was a myth of origin that meant, to Americans at least, that DV embodied a "European" sensibility, complete with a spiritual connection to Parisian haute couture. Diana Vreeland by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart – review 2013-03-01T12:00:01Z This adds to the already prolonged farewell to the show, which explores the convergence of couture and technology and was originally slated to close on Aug. 14. The Met Museum Extends Hours for the Final Weekend of ‘Manus x Machina’ 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z “The ski world and the scuba world — and couture,” said Mr. Tisci, the latter comment explaining his insertion of fragile lace dresses and twinkling red accessories. Special Report: Red Carpet Fading Away 2010-03-08T18:30:00Z That said, there’s plenty to recommend Aimée and her taste for coffee and couture. ‘Murder Below Montparnasse’: art, politics and mayhem 2013-02-28T23:48:52Z Givenchy suspended its formal couture shows in 2012, first holding static presentations of the collection instead, and more recently incorporating some couture looks into its men’s wear shows in January and June. Clare Waight Keller Is Named First Female Designer of Givenchy 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Spectacular gowns from Kyoto and from Newark’s own collection, as well as articles of contemporary couture, in a show organized by the Kyoto Costume Institute and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Art Fall Preview: Over 100 Not-to-Miss Shows From East Coast to West 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z “The store,” Marino suggests, “is like a work of couture.” Peter Marino Designs a Gleaming Chanel Boutique in Boston 2014-02-04T05:00:00Z And its inspiration was, at the time, a revelation, helping to expand the cultural resonance of couture far beyond its Paris birthplace. How a little girl’s ‘pretty dresses’ became one of the most significant gifts to the Met 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Surely a couture house derives its mystery and staying power from the knowledge of making things. With ?Dior Couture,? Patrick Demarchelier Opens the House?s Doors 2011-11-29T20:45:15Z Don’t worry if you accidentally dip the cuff in a mug of coffee — individual touches make for custom couture. All dressed up and nowhere to go? Sweet relief! It's L.A. Library Foundation’s Stay Home and Read a Book Ball 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z At the time, Paris was the undisputed fashion capital of the world, and American designers were seen as purveyors of commercial clothing who lacked the sophisticated pedigree required to create haute couture. ‘We Fascinated Them’: Shailah Edmonds on a Golden Era of Black Models 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z But this weekend, the visitors outside the French haute couture house were waiting patiently for entrance to the private salon above the shop, an area rarely open to the public. LVMH Luxury Houses Throw Open Their Doors 2013-06-16T10:19:11Z Personally, I’m beginning to think Mr. Lagerfeld might be the Woody Allen of couture. A Vision in Melancholy 2011-07-06T22:31:19Z At last, it's Met Gala night, when celebrities grace the steps of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art in haute couture for all to judge and admire. "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty:" The 18 most outrageous, buzzworthy looks from the Met Gala 2023 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z His career in fashion photography imbued cool couture style with high-art surrealism, spanning the explosion of color and creativity of the 1960s. Melvin Sokolsky, Surrealist Fashion Photographer, Dies at 88 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s impossible to take a garment seriously as a cry of rage or despair once it has hit the haute couture catwalk. The Power of the Yellow Vest 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The result was couture that chanted a little too much its inspiration: the famous French fables of Fontaine. Special Report: Fashion: Givenchy: Pure Is Beautiful 2011-07-05T17:12:09Z Still, I can’t remember another couture season that inspired so many thoughts about what the current crop of nominees might wear to the Oscars. On the Runway Blog: And in Couture Is ... 2012-01-27T19:07:26Z The inclusion of a haute couture camouflage outfit — this during the depths of despair over the Vietnam debacle — shows how prescient the collection was about a look that still rules the runways today. Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Saint Laurent: Revolutionary Romantic 2010-03-09T19:28:00Z Nevertheless, he was up before 5 a.m. looking at the Dior reviews, which were far more positive than those for the couture show. On the Runway Blog: Dior and Galliano, After Galliano 2011-10-01T16:15:24Z And, at the back of the store, a video installation by Yoram projects walls of flowers—a throwback to Dior’s ultra-fem past—that inspired Simons’s first couture show in fall 2012. Look inside Dior’s edgy new SoHo flagship 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z But the shows it puts on, under the banner of Clubbed Thumb productions, always look inventively stylish, rather like the luminous young things of the neighborhood who assemble thrift-shop rags into passable imitations of couture. Review: ‘Tin Cat Shoes,’ a Commentary on the Silliness of the System 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Together they will present a collection during the couture shows in Paris in July. The Glamorous Grandmas of Instagram 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Think all this is going to be more costly than couture? | Ditto.com 2012-10-12T13:00:49Z Olivier Theyskens was once known in his Paris period for a sweet, fey, wispy, couture sensibility. Marc Jacobs: Optical Allusions 2012-09-11T17:04:44Z Spray paint technology is not a foreign concept in haute couture — Alexander McQueen first implemented the technology 23 years ago for his Spring 1999 collection. The 13 most buzzworthy fashion statements of 2022, ranked 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Because Mr. Armani’s spring couture collection had so many unusual fabrics, and was really quite dazzling — filled with futuristic sculpture in jewel colors — I decided to hoof it backstage. Fashion Review: Onstage or Backstage, a Kiss for Paris 2011-01-26T23:00:11Z She sourced accessories and streetwear from small labels run by women and people of color, including Miracle Eye, the Mighty Company and Muaves, and added a smattering of vintage couture where the budget allowed. ‘Do Revenge’: Paying Homage to Teen Classics by Way of Hitchcock 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z But in January the Mulleavys announced a major change in strategic tack for their spring 2018 show: a permanent relocation from the New York ready-to-wear carousel to Paris and the couture calendar. Rodarte’s Founders on Being the Newest Americans in Paris 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z The Chanel codes are as clear in jewels as in couture. Bedazzled at the Place Vendôme 2012-07-09T12:37:02Z As the Paris couture season opens, all eyes are on the mighty house of Dior and its new designer, the Belgian Raf Simons, who shows his debut collection on Monday. The World of Couture Is Growing 2012-07-01T17:54:28Z Yet the inspirations that matter — especially in Paris couture — are those that are absorbed by designers into their own aesthetics. 2010-01-29T05:30:00Z “And the funny thing,” Prinzing shares, “is that often florists don’t realize that local couture farmers are right under their noses—right in their own backyards.” Debra Prinzing talks to AD about her Slow Flowers movement 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Taking a role as couture architect rather than decorator, Mr. Simons has shown ball-gown skirts, albeit with stark white blouses, elegant day dresses in paisley patterns and splashes of Picasso. Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z Of couture, he once opined, one could “look like a badly wrapped parcel for over $10,000.” Why Michael Roberts Mattered 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z To this day, they remain part of France’s fashion heritage DNA, featuring elaborately in couture collections by Chanel, Dior and Jean Paul Gaultier. Virus pushes storied Paris fan museum to brink of folding 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z French pop stars and actors posed for photographs; women in couture on needle-sharp heels negotiated the crowds. Review: Paris Opera Ballet Kicks Off New Season With Futuristic Choreography 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z And he had no experience in haute couture. Raf Simons’s First Dior Collection 2012-07-03T22:19:35Z For the evening’s state dinner, the first for the Trump White House, she wore a Chanel haute couture gown with black Chantilly lace. Perspective | For Melania Trump, fashion diplomacy was defined by a hat 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Gurung filled his show with assertive tailoring in couture silks with drifting layers of chiffon and some T-tops printed with a bird’s wing. Fashion Review: Alexander Wang, Rag & Bone, Altuzarra, Suno, Prabal Gurung: Fashion Week Reviews 2012-09-09T22:36:17Z The designer has been smart in the way that he segments his collections, so that haute couture is deliberately decorative and the ready-to-wear line in the same pretty spirit, but much simpler. Dark Opulence and Red Carpet 2014-03-03T20:19:27Z Earlier masters of Parisian couture such as Christian Dior or Cristobal Balenciaga shaped fashion around the world. Yves Saint Laurent: Fashion on film 2014-03-19T03:31:22Z The next four rooms, their grandiose high ceilings suggesting salons of haute couture, are filled with four decades of punk inspirations, right up to Burberry’s current silver studs. At the Met, Punk Without the Down and Dirty 2013-05-06T11:58:12Z A disembodied voice read out a description of each look - old-school haute couture style - as the models alighted from the scaffolding and ambled around the showroom. Men in skirts, shiny silks at Paris menswear shows 2011-06-24T00:33:10Z Displays from Paris’ select Haute couture club - a small circle of designers creating luxury, handmade outfits for clients - runs until Jan. 25. Chanel brings springtime to Paris with extravagant rose garden 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The mainstream picture of what that looks like has been locked down by RuPaul Charles, a performer who's constantly shifting between men's suits and operatic arias shaped into floor-length couture gowns. All hail Uncle Clifford on "P-Valley," a vision of Black queerness not seen anywhere else on TV 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z And that suddenly seems like 21st century haute couture. Special Report: Fashion: Givenchy: Pure Is Beautiful 2011-07-05T17:12:09Z It’s funny that people see ready-to-wear as a business and couture as not. Iris van Herpen’s astonishing designs don’t look like ‘clothes.’ They look like the future. 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Last year, the Los Angeles Times exposed the practice of parents buying couture outfits for children to wear at gifting suites at the Oscars. Nightmares in the dream factory: how Hollywood scams would-be child stars 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Then the Fédération Française de la Couture, French fashion’s governing body, announced that Vetements would be on the couture schedule, the most exclusive week in fashion. The Year’s Top Stories From the Fashion World 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z A couture dress may not “speak” from afar, nor its delicate Lesage embroidery be visible. What Christian Lacroix Did Next 2011-10-31T12:22:19Z Both shows expressed the new spirit of couture, which is based on fabulous workmanship — yet with some discretion. Special Report: Fashion: Plumes of Glorious Restraint 2011-07-06T17:21:47Z Back in the early part of the 20th century, women were very aware of Parisian couture and everyone wanted to copy them. Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z Mr. Gn is all about the glamour and the gilded world of haute couture. Special Report: Fashion: Seeing Collections as the Buyers Do 2011-03-08T18:52:09Z Mini-skirts in couture silk trailed long sashes, sometimes left floating behind. Milan Fashion Week: Prada deconstructs luxe evening wear 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Through a network of friends, he has met couture collectors whose troves he visits, something he hardly does in Paris. Los Angeles Is Becoming Paris Amid the Palms 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z And this is what a show which features a haute couture dress modeled after Francis of Assisi's simple, rough, humble garb certainly does do. The Costume Institute Takes On Catholicism 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z In hindsight, it’s as though Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy were holding back the impeding tide of celebrity excess: the costly haute couture, the personal branding, the competitive public confessionals, the grotesqueness of it all. Perspective | JFK Jr. and Carolyn showed us the right way to be famous for being famous 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z His black and white images, made with the 19th-century daguerreotype photographic technique, will be shown in a free exhibition in Paris along the Seine called “The Glory of Water,” during the July haute couture season. Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld to Aid Rome’s Fountains 2013-06-03T10:03:39Z Griffin is no stranger to the fashion tweaking franchise, in which comedians and other style mavens riff on their opinions of celebs' red carpet couture. Kathy Griffin will become new 'Fashion Police' host 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Square shoulders against geometric patterned jackets, skirts and pants were the essential formula for Giorgio Armani's rather mature fall couture show. Actors and seamstresses the stars of Chanel's Paris couture 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Simons breathed new life into Jil Sander, and after six years there, as Ms. Sander returned, he joined Dior, ascending to one of the highest mounts of Parisian ready-to-wear and haute couture. Can Raf Simons Reinvent American Fashion? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Haute couture, what remains of it, is a little like a fragile ecosystem under siege by modern tastes and habits, and by couturiers who are stuck in the past. 2010-01-28T08:06:00Z But then the ability to personalize design is the beauty and the essence of haute couture. Fashion Review: Valli: ‘Girly, Young and Fun’ 2014-01-21T14:52:14Z Lathan's extraordinary lawyer slips right into the fray, and Brody wears with ease the slouchy leisure couture of a billionaire investor. "Succession" returns after two years, and the Roy family hasn't changed a bit 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z That is because she was not actually invited by the French to participate in their official couture event, and showing independently is a bit presumptuous. The Russians Claim the Fashion Spotlight 2012-06-29T20:17:42Z Raf Simons used his old noggin to create a collection for Dior, his very first involving the fine hands of couture, and it got everyone talking and thinking. Fashion Review: Couture Is Fun but Not for All 2012-07-06T17:45:23Z These designers, who are Bulgarian and Portuguese, “combine a whimsical eccentricity with a real couture finish and detailing,” Mr. Noisette said. Couture Creations for Dancing Bodies 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Most women don’t pay attention to haute couture, and the reason isn’t the money — made-to-measure clothes have always been extremely costly — and it isn’t the lavishness or circuslike atmosphere of the shows. 2010-01-28T08:06:00Z It was all about Rome at Valentino’s Fall/Winter couture show on Thursday. Valentino’s Couture Show Was All About Rome 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Next month, editors and retailers go to Milan and Paris for the seasonal men’s wear and couture collections. Dorchester Hotels Falling Out of Fashion 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Simons’s aim was to show how photographers lend their interpretation to couture. On the Runway Blog: Dior: Letting Loose 2013-07-01T20:50:19Z If the sweeping skirts and painterly colors recalled the much lamented couture collections of Christian Lacroix, they were perfectly controlled. Special Report: Haute Couture: Dior Blooms Brightly 2010-07-05T17:53:00Z The designer has been experimenting with shape in his haute couture Privé line. Special Report: Fashion: The Post-Feminist Armani 2011-02-28T18:41:47Z The fine jewelry world’s annual dazzling collections are unveiled on the last day of haute couture fall-winter shows each year. Beyoncé and J-Lo’s designers cap Paris couture 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The spring haute couture shows, which ended tonight with Valentino, revealed a creative energy that ought to give pause to designers of ready-to-wear. On the Runway: Paris Couture: Valentino 2011-01-27T00:00:06Z The wardrobe department must have had to make some serious adjustments to Roy’s couture. R.I.P.D.: Too Awful to Review? 2013-07-19T10:56:32Z The skill of Mr Ghesquière is to be able to take a couture code and transform it into something modern, futuristic even. Special Report: Fashion: Down and Dirty: Balenciaga and Balmain 2010-09-30T18:09:00Z “So, I expect our couture to be much finer than ever before.” Unfamiliar Territory for Indian Bridal Industry 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z But it was a fine and convincing start, bringing new young life to couture by an assured designer with a genuine clientele. Special Report: Fashion: Givenchy: Pure Is Beautiful 2011-07-05T17:12:09Z A designer with couture experience, Mr. Jaruraak sews each constricting costume himself. Beyond the Drag Event Horizon 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Each year, millions of pounds worth of precious stones and haute couture gowns are concentrated on the Coté d'Azur town synonymous with palm-trees and bling. Cannes jewellery heist takes shine off stars on red carpet day 2013-05-17T16:23:17Z With his haute couture show Wednesday, Jean Paul Gaultier took that step. Special Report: Haute Couture: National Treasure 2010-07-07T17:26:00Z For Mr. Simons, couture is a new and extraordinary playground. Raf Simons’s First Dior Collection 2012-07-03T22:19:35Z In the central room, where a Chanel couture wedding dress sits under a dome of digitally projected embroidery, all that could be heard was the churchly incantation of the Brian Eno soundtrack. At the Met Gala, Everyone Seems a Little Starstruck. Even the Stars. 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Maybe the filmmakers thought if they got the nose just right and painstakingly recreated Diana’s couture, everything else would ring true. The Princess of Wails: Diana is a Royal Mess 2013-09-27T01:22:14Z But the clothes, with their intricate workmanship and a penchant toward evening, seemed more appropriate to couture than ready-to-wear. Fashion Review: Stella McCartney 2011-10-03T18:27:47Z By the late 1990s, even haute couture clients could wear their trousers low. Hip-hop was poised to conquer fashion. Why did it stop short? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Haute couture brands pulled back in catering to the sneakers and streetwear market to redouble their focus on luring in wealthier customers. From Goop to Oprah, this year's gift guides may signal the end of the world 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z That was a stark contrast to the women's show, where Gaultier crowned Pejic with the prized piece in the women's wear collection: a couture bride's dress. Gender-bending model pushes limits of the runway 2012-02-09T07:48:09Z De la Renta, who was born in the Dominican Republic, began his career in Europe, honing his craft in the great ateliers of Paris, where haute couture was the standard. Robin Givhan on Oscar de la Renta: With style, he wooed women of all stripes Those numbers of dedicated workers show why haute joaillerie is, in its detail and craftsmanship, in the family of haute couture. Jewelry With Stories to Tell 2010-07-12T11:20:00Z But for better or worse Madrid has been talking about the opera — heatedly — rather than merely putting on couture and going to it. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z The Metropolitan Museum of Art's upcoming exhibit "Chaos to Couture" showcases the spectrum of punk's influence on fashion – from haute couture to the mainstream. Shaved heads and safety pins? Help us tell the story of punk 2013-04-30T13:39:49Z If last year’s ready-to-wear shows were a conceptual leap forward, the couture was the aesthetic turning point. The Year of Balenciaga 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The verve of Versace — what the designer called “the traditions of couture with the daring of contemporary life” — is important in solidifying the image of the house. Fashion Review: At Versace, Grace Jones Meets Lady Gaga 2014-01-20T10:07:39Z Voluptuous beauties, over-60s, as well as male and female models from diverse racial background stepped out into the flashes of the camera sparkling in light, optimistic and playful couture designs. Race, age, weight: Valentino backs diversity in Paris show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z From mass retailers to couture lines, “Native” fashion elements — such as suede fringe, beading and tribal patterns belonging to specific families — are being used without permission, attribution or any benefit to actual Native American designers. From New York, to Paris, to D.C.: Native American fashion gains ground, in spite of stolen designs 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Even if not a single couture garment was sold, the hype would shift millions of bottles of perfume, handbags and shoes—products with the largest markups. Two butterflies, one wheel 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z And well they should be after a night of punk and couture. On the Runway Blog: Costume Institute Gala Is an Experience, From Head to Toes 2013-05-07T15:55:20Z Mr. Rucci is an expert in this delicate couture work, which opens up the rigidity of the streamlined silhouette in an intriguing way. Special Report: Fashion: Reviews Spring/Summer 2012: Ralph Lauren, Proenza Schouler 2011-09-15T16:56:47Z Also here is a floaty metallic number worn by Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, late Gilded Age couture embroidered with Egyptian lotus leaves. Art Review: How the Other Half Dressed 2010-09-16T21:44:00Z The couture references include the Eiffel Tower, embroidered stitch by stitch on net hose; or a technically dazzling piece of tailoring that encompasses in one piece a dress and a coat. Special Report: Fashion: Gaultier's Talking Heads Astound 2011-06-17T11:01:16Z Tuesday's haute couture shows felt more flashy than in previous seasons - perhaps owing to confidence after some fashion houses revealed rising sales figures during last year. Chanel aims sky-high, and Armani courts A-list 2012-01-24T23:03:20Z There seems to be a "sort of" couture growing among the ranks of smart designers. T Magazine: Haute Stuff 2012-10-15T13:00:07Z Olowu’s clothes are similarly vibrant; his line, which he founded in 2004, consists of dresses and tailoring made from materials including vintage couture fabrics, French furniture upholstery and textiles of his own design. From a Beloved Fashion Designer, Fabrics for the Home 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z This collection, if shown during the Paris haute couture season, would illuminate the fading calendar and underscore the meld of imagination, invention and workmanship that is Alexander McQueen today. Hermès: Gentle End to Hectic Week 2014-03-05T18:19:30Z Who else is quietly getting ready to enter the couture salon? The World of Couture Is Growing 2012-07-01T17:54:28Z The Paris haut couture shows, which run twice a year, draw visitors from around the world and generate a host of side events including glitzy parties. French designer cancels Paris fashion show, derailed by strike chaos 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z “This is my couture,” says Christian Lacroix, before his latest creations took to the stage in “La Source,” a magical realist ballet created in the 19th century and rarely seen since then. What Christian Lacroix Did Next 2011-10-31T12:22:19Z The Versace company is investing more in couture, and that showed on Donatella Versace’s runway. Fashion Review: Review of Couture Fashion Week: Raf Simons, Dior, Versace and More 2013-07-03T19:39:15Z Yet the soul of the line was in the couture finishes, like the silken embroidery on lapels, roses decorating knit sleeves and a general sense that the McQueen label is aiming high and mighty. Alexander McQueen Adding a Made-to-Order Line of Men?s Wear 2012-01-16T18:58:07Z Most lovable is its inclusiveness: dancers of different races, of widely unalike temperaments and couture, coexist calmly here, often in exactly the same intricate meter but sometimes in overlapping sequences and facing separate directions. Review: Fall for Dance’s Eclectic Variations 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Dior: Letting Loose A year after Raf Simons showed his first couture collection for Dior, he continues to shake up the fashion world. On the Runway Blog: Dior: Letting Loose 2013-07-01T20:50:19Z But earlier this year Mr Galliano’s comeback show for Maison Margiela couture was praised by the industry just four years after his disgrace. Two butterflies, one wheel 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z His pieces at the moment, are essentially American-made couture: beaded, embroidered or chain linked painstakingly by hand in his New York studio, just a man and a team of interns. New York Men’s Fashion Week: The Mixtape 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Fifty dark couture creations such as black fur coats, black paneled leather pencil skirts, circular crinoline skirts, exaggeratedly high fringes, and sleeves in black “mille feuille” organza couture slinked along the silken catwalk. ‘Calm’ Kardashian joins Emma Watson at Valentino 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z At the couture shows in Paris last month, first Dior and then Chanel showed spring confections with sneakers, albeit bedazzled ones. Browsing: Shopping: Designer Sneakers, Personal Perfumes, Nipponista and Isabel Marant Sunglasses 2014-02-05T22:24:34Z In many ways, the Globes are the fashion warm-up for the Oscars, when most every actress shows up in couture and the men are often in bespoke tuxedos. Perspective | Lady Gaga’s dress won the Golden Globes red carpet — but men’s fashion showed it can compete 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z The clothes are quietly evocative of a place and usually a little more down-to-earth than couture. On the Runway: Chanel's Byzantine Express 2010-12-09T23:57:00Z This was one of Mr. Lagerfeld’s finest collections, a homage to haute couture and to Chanel’s ateliers, while also an expression of modernity. Fashion Review: At Chanel, Look at the Shoes! 2014-01-21T15:22:29Z Mr. Galliano’s haute couture show in January also had riding clothes as a theme, but a watered-down couture show is not really the problem with his latest collection. Fashion Review: The Cavalry Can?t Save Them 2010-03-06T03:11:00Z Oldfield, from northwest England, studied at Central St. Martin's College of Art before starting his ready-to-wear label in 1975 and his couture label in 1978. At look at possible royal wedding dress designers 2011-04-18T13:23:20Z Lubitsch replaced them with this: at the Ritz, Ninotchka passes a couture hat in a window; she disapproves; later, she passes it again; she lingers. My hero Ernst Lubitsch by Adam Thirlwell 2011-03-19T00:06:57Z The AltaRoma season, which took place here last week, had classic couture clothes for the rich and conventional. Fashion and the Power of the Pulpit 2013-07-15T12:12:14Z Which means that, just as what happens on the runways over the next three days of couture matters, the trends being unveiled at the Australian Open in Melbourne matter. At the Australian Open, Setting a Different Kind of Fashion Trend 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The lauded designer opened Paris' haute couture week on a breeze of soft A-line silhouettes. Christian Dior changes its face in couture day 1 2012-07-03T02:46:04Z Mrs. Bloomingdale, who usually took two trips a year to Europe to buy designer gowns, donated a large collection of her couture to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles. Betsy Bloomingdale, Socialite and Friend of Influencers, Dies at 93 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z More than 200 haute couture garments, including dresses worn by notables like Grace Kelly, Jennifer Lawrence and Princess Diana, mix with sketches, vintage perfume and accessories in an enchanted garden-like space. Gowns, Puppets and Sharks: 8 Cultural Sights to See This Winter 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z His ability to treat skins like cloth, coupled with a sensibility to the haute couture of his native country, made for a light J. Mendel collection. Fashion Review: As New York Fashion Week Ends, a Crisis of Identity 2012-02-17T17:58:42Z The shows began May 3 with Chanel, an extravaganza in Havana that included 86 looks, some tourism and some controversy, and they extend through next month — yes, into the couture fall 2016-17 season. Diary of a Cruise Season 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z She invented the bizarrely quirky costumes, which she thinks of as an elaborate sort of critter couture. On the Runway Blog: From Isabella Rossellini, Creature Moms 2013-05-12T12:00:38Z Don’t expect to see her on the red carpet in Heigl couture, however — though she said she would consider making T-shirts. Dusting Off the Sewing Machine 2012-07-04T15:28:44Z Both men were usefully high-profile in an industry whose income depended now less on haute couture than on using well-known brands to market perfumes and accessories. Alexander McQueen remembered 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The secret, he said, is the blind eye she turns to labels, whether they're off-the-rack or couture, and instead, consistently focuses on her own natural beauty. Kate brings feminine, tried-and-true looks to US 2011-07-11T20:20:10Z Suddenly you've got starlets walking the red carpet, doing their little shimmying in Valentine couture, which no one else will ever have--and that's the other thing. The Farmer's Wife Of Vintage Fashion 2010-07-14T20:45:00Z "This sale demonstrates that even in these difficult economic times, the appetite for haute couture is undiminished and we are already looking forward to our next auction in February," said Kerry Taylor. Amy Winehouse dress fetches $68,000 at auction 2011-11-30T13:55:13Z One of my fellow nominees spent $45,000 on a vintage couture gown, and I'm not going to do that. Lucy Walker: My Oscars diary 2011-03-06T00:13:02Z No wonder this is the home of couture. On the Runway Blog: A Tale of Two Seasons at Couture Fashion Week 2013-01-22T15:50:03Z For Mr. Simons’s first couture show in July 2012, a million fresh flowers were ordered to line the walls. For Dior’s Cruise Collection, a River View 2014-05-09T20:52:59Z Hubert de Givenchy retired from the haute couture business nearly 20 years ago, but the design baron’s sophisticated taste still turns heads. Inside Hubert de Givenchy's Private Antiques Collection 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z "River Island is very much a high-street retail brand and wouldn't have that much of a connection to high fashion and couture," Hein said. Rihanna brings high street to catwalks at London show 2013-02-17T03:25:14Z A projection shows a platinum blond Jayne Mansfield watching a Dior haute couture show demurely from the front row. Dior exhibit traces 60 years of cinema 2012-05-10T21:16:08Z Foppish scions in their 20s ascended the grand marble staircase, and sipped champagne in couture gowns, velvet dinner jackets and tuxedo slippers rakishly embroidered with Chinese characters. Edith Wharton?s World, Recast for ?Gossip Girl? 2011-03-02T22:22:52Z Christian Bale, in arguably his best performance to date, plays a competitive, vain businessman obsessed with haute couture, business cards, Phil Collins, facial scrub and serial murder. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'? Take stock of other DVDs that explore the dangers of greed 2010-09-23T22:26:00Z Amused by the sight of a little girl obsessed with sparkly dresses, they took to sending her their castoff couture, and that became the kernel of a collection that now includes over 15,000 pieces. In Praise of One Woman’s Love Affair With Fashion 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Graphic checks and seafaring stripes were part of Bouchra Jarrar’s streamlined collection — more for next winter than a couture summer line. Fashion Review: Graphic Checks to Movie-Star Glamour 2013-01-23T18:00:31Z The last fact probably makes her the first performance artist in history to wear haute couture. Marina Abramovic?s Crossover Moment 2011-11-18T23:58:05Z That precise turn of mind is what Raf Simons showed in his first collection for Dior, the high point of the fall haute couture shows. Raf Simons’s First Dior Collection 2012-07-03T22:19:35Z The film takes Jackie’s cunning and dissimulations as much for granted as it does her elegance and love of couture. ‘Jackie’: Under the Widow’s Weeds, a Myth Marketer 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Except most don’t have to fly to Paris at dawn for a round of couture shows. T Magazine: Ruby Aldridge, Runaround 2011-10-14T14:38:38Z "Some of the handmade pieces are beyond couture," he says. Punk rocks on the catwalk 2013-04-23T17:15:37Z The message was of couture — hence the basket-weave hats and dainty lace. Fashion Review: Bill Gaytten at Dior Shows a Light Touch 2011-09-30T18:29:29Z Every inch of the couture, ruffles and shimmer that revitalized the house over the last few years was on display Friday, including reinterpretations of 1960s vintage pieces from the iconic archives. Dior hems plunge, Lanvin celebrates at Paris shows 2012-03-03T02:46:04Z A Christian Dior ambassador, Marion wore an almost casual couture blood-orange strapless dress with an asymmetric hem for the Golden Globes. Awards season style: the women to watch on the red carpet in 2013 2013-02-08T10:50:17Z “There are only two real haute couture houses remaining,” Ms. Riviere says. | The Day Before Dior 2012-01-23T18:07:31Z As heel tips shrank to the size of tacks, the stiletto, named for an Italian shiv from the 1700s, became an emblem of the Jet Age and French haute couture. Makers: Who Made That Stiletto? 2012-04-13T18:26:02Z When we meet Mother, she’s frazzled, serving food and wearing dowdy clothes that look like rags next to her husband’s comparatively haute couture suit. Can We Talk About the Mom in ‘A Christmas Story’? 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z On Thursday, the French brand named Clare Waight Keller as its artistic director, responsible for women’s and men’s wear, accessories and couture. Clare Waight Keller Is Named First Female Designer of Givenchy 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Grand opera was the inspiration for Valentino, as dresses of extraordinarily subtle handwork but with bold messages closed the Paris 2014 summer couture season. Fashion Review: Valentino Sings on the Runway 2014-01-22T18:55:36Z From the British designer’s tsunami of ideas in the twice-a-year haute couture and ready-to-wear collections, design teams build ranges of inter-season collections and accessory lines. Galliano Said to Be Headed for Rehab 2011-03-02T14:51:32Z The “Monarch” creative team hopes viewers might come for the music and stay for the murder, sex and betrayal, not to mention the country couture. ‘Monarch’ Heralds a New Family Empire, This One With a Texas Twang 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z "It's about bones, but not in a ghost kind of way - unless we're talking about the ghost of couture," he joked. The naked and the dead at Paris couture 2010-07-08T00:29:00Z His forgeries, he says, financed an extravagant lifestyle that included European trips, exclusive restaurants, Versace couture and “total freedom.” Ken Perenyi, Art Forger, Now Sells His Work as Copies 2012-07-18T22:12:11Z He told Vanity Fair that he used female staffers to enter fashion houses under the pretense of buying couture and to ferret out gossip and information from seamstresses about fashion lines and their creators. John B. Fairchild, Women’s Wear Daily publisher, dies at 87 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z They don't call it haute couture for nothing. 'Dior and I' a stitch-in-time peek at haute couture creation 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z And then, a few paragraphs later: “I was always seated on the front row at the couture and ready-to-wear catwalk shows, the only black man among a sea of white titans of style.” Anna Wintour Is Not the Star of André Leon Talley’s Memoir. He Is. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z You made three new couture coats for the exhibition. A Word With: Isaac Mizrahi, Dramaturge of the Runway 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The office wear is, according to a news release from Balenciaga, actually the beginning of a new line called Garde-Robe involving “wardrobe staples” that will be a sort of perennial offering between ready-to-wear and couture. Balenciaga Occupies Wall Street 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z But haute couture is a craft as well as an art. Fashion Review: Cabinet of Curiosities 2013-07-04T16:56:14Z “In a way, the red-carpet couture gown is almost like a wedding dress,” said Rebecca Arnold, a fashion historian with the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. What Happened to Risk on the Red Carpet? 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z In their fifth couture collection, the house’s design duo hit target: to produce a dress that clients were sighing and dying for; and a collection that was very Valentino is spirit — but fresh and young. Special Report: Fashion: Gaultier: From Cheek to Chic 2011-01-28T15:00:16Z British-born Day-Lewis, known for his meticulous preparation, threw himself into the project, studying for months with designers and making a couture dress himself. Daniel Day-Lewis bows out with twisted romance 'Phantom Thread' 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “Inside, we designed a new staircase to look like one of my spiraling haute couture dresses,” Mr. Galante said. Special Report: : Haute Couture for Furniture 2011-11-21T13:07:04Z I was amazed to be sent – by the Bolshoi’s own press officer – this clip of Ms. Plisetskaya modeling a variety of couture, and, watching, I rejoiced. Watching Maya Plisetskaya 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The vitrine sculptures and the paintings — especially the mirrors painted with Mondrian-like black bands — would be at home in the window of some couture emporium on 57th Street or Madison Avenue. Art in Review: Josephine Meckseper 2014-01-16T22:50:41Z Her hair is in a pomp, nails always perfectly polished, smokin’ hot high heels and always the perfect dress, skirt or couture gown to go with her stunning personality. | Brian Newman 2012-05-07T17:00:45Z Karl Lagerfeld has said that, in a given season, some Russian clients have bought as many as 35 Chanel couture outfits, which typically have prices in the five and six figures. The Russians Claim the Fashion Spotlight 2012-06-29T20:17:42Z And the return of the couture line to the runway was an excuse to show some of the bling that had been toned down in the show: the Versace high jewelry collection. Fashion Review: Dior's Global Vision 2013-07-01T17:50:31Z After a stellar couture show, this Gaultier collection proved that the designer has reached the height of his skills without losing a sense of provocation and fun. Special Report: Refreshing Their Identities 2010-03-07T18:41:00Z My first Paris Dior show was in 1951, Only couture was presented; ready-to-wear did not exist. | Video: Bill Cunningham | Wear it Forward 2014-03-21T20:57:51Z The result was a powerful affirmation of Ms. Burton’s personal vision, for she kept a strong theme and the couture quality of the work, while bringing, crucially, a female vision. Fashion Review: Marc Jacobs and the Louis Vuitton Merry-Go-Round 2011-10-05T18:17:17Z She is abstract art, a construct of colour and couture. My favourite Hitchcock: Marnie 2012-08-13T08:31:07Z But at her current tier in the Hollywood hierarchy, “It’s not like couture designers are saying, ‘Wear my dress!’ Can fashion launch an actress to the A-list? Meta Golding’s red carpet strategy 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z By the time she won, almost all of her team had departed Cannes, leaving her clad in Chanel couture, “crying to my mom on the phone.” T Magazine: Kirsten Dunst: '60s Going on 30 2011-10-14T02:17:29Z For my first wedding, in 1993, Mr Choo himself measured my feet and handmade a pair of couture Duchess satin heels to match my gown. High heels and their perennial appeal: why pain seems a small price to pay 2012-07-21T14:48:19Z The event will include men’s wear and couture as well as women’s wear, and all before more than 800 lucky members of the public who managed to secure tickets from an online offer. What’s Coming During Fashion Month 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z "Punk fashion started from the street and percolated up, and suddenly couture seemed out of touch and not relevant," said Hamish Bowles, Vogue's international editor at large. Punk finds its place in hallowed halls of Met 2013-05-07T18:03:17Z But two designers at the haute couture collections created playful interpretations of the multicultural mix. Fashion Review: A Playful Mix of Cultures 2013-01-23T18:00:31Z Another strong theme incorporates the knots, bows, lace, tulle and trimmings of haute couture. Parisian Exhibit Reveals Secrets of Fine Jewelry Making 2012-11-27T13:30:19Z But Mr. Simons so thoroughly caught the refined, haute spirit in a pure, but sensual, and modern way, that he deserves a couture house and its heritage to play his fashion sonata. Special Report: Fashion: At Jil Sander, Raf Simons Plays With Modernism 2011-09-25T16:45:15Z If the first half was like looking at the stitches of street dance, the second, in which Mr. Harris presented several short works that bled from one to the next, was its couture collection. Rennie Harris Puremovement and ‘A Batalha do Passinho’ 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z After five years of cataloguing and conserving, London's Design Museum is dusting down its impressive collection for this survey of everything from architectural maquettes to haute couture dresses and park benches. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-19T23:09:33Z For the second straight season, Givenchy chose to unveil its couture collection with a two-day-long presentation instead of a runway show. Chanel's casual chic vs. Givenchy's extreme art 2011-01-25T23:56:11Z Speaking to The Associated Press, bespectacled Grumbach reflected on the health of couture today. Theron, Penn dazzle Dior as fashion gets political 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z One of Princess Diana's favorite designers, Oldfield is best known for his couture evening dresses and bridalwear. At look at possible royal wedding dress designers 2011-04-18T13:23:20Z Also the picture of the elderly couple making out and the plastic surgery fashion shoot with a model wearing bandages all over her face decked out in couture and jewels. Talk: Questions for Carine Roitfeld 2011-09-02T13:02:03Z Sporty, couture and 1980s-inspired looks dominated the catwalks at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin, with a wide selection of designers offering creations for women's winter wardrobes. Sporty, couture and 1980s-inspired fashion dominate Berlin catwalks 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Gaytten was also behind the Dior haute couture collection presented the following month to disastrous reviews. Paris court to rule in Galliano anti-Semitism case 2011-09-08T10:01:11Z “It’s going to be traditional on the top, a big haute couture design at the bottom.” Free to Say, ?I Do,? but Where? 2011-07-01T20:53:28Z For his haute couture show the designer perched models on a large, slowly spinning disc for a short and sweet show that put all of Mr. Sorbier’s hallmark talents on display. Special Report: Fashion: Ready for the Red Carpet 2011-01-27T18:36:35Z In questioning couture, of course, Mr. Simons is also questioning the fashion system, with its lock-step rules and apathy. On the Runway Blog: Dior: Letting Loose 2013-07-01T20:50:19Z Giambattista Valli’s first collection of haute couture promised and delivered everything his following of young European monied beauties desire: dollops of feathers, pearls, embroideries, animal prints, flowers, ruffles, and bows. | Giambattista Valli 2011-07-04T20:00:57Z Mr. Lesage, who took over the business from his father, Albert, in 1949, was one of the last links in a chain that stretches back to the golden era of haute couture. A Master of Embroidery Remembered 2011-12-20T00:48:07Z And even to someone arriving from the moon, the show immediately was recognizable as haute couture. 2010-01-27T13:08:00Z Bravura touches, like chiffon capes, just looked like tossed-off couture gestures. Special Report: Fashion: Camping It Up in Old Shanghai 2010-10-06T17:35:00Z The team dresses in identical white jackets — a cross between an haute couture seamstress’s smock and a mad scientist’s lab coat. Weird, cutting edge fashion — at home in Washington This round she revisits vintage couture in a contemporary context. Large coats a mainstay for next winter from Milan 2013-02-21T22:50:18Z Monday marked the lavish return to Paris couture of Donatella Versace, who wowed spectators with her unapologetic glitz, gold and famous friends. Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture 2012-01-24T00:17:19Z It's enough that couture refreshes your picture of fashion, and maybe, inspires you. On the Runway Blog: On and Off the Fashion Grid 2012-07-06T18:05:15Z “The elegance of each character springs not from haute couture, but from individuality: the wonderful flaw, the stylistic rebellion,” Ms. Quin said in an interview. In the Book ‘The Killer Detail,’ Considering the Essence of Chic 2013-12-06T23:33:21Z Is blurring the line between couture and high-end ready-to-wear the future for high fashion, so often seen as on its last legs? The World of Couture Is Growing 2012-07-01T17:54:28Z In the 1960s, he expanded Saint Laurent’s operations from haute couture into the far more profitable ready-to-wear market, with boutiques in Paris, New York and other cities across the globe. Pierre Bergé, Transformative Fashion Executive, Dies at 86 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The 82-piece Autumn/Winter collection marks the veteran designer’s 30th haute couture collection. Armani Privé sends pastel rainbow gliding down Paris runway 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z And Precisely So — Outwardly, the spring haute couture shows were about the joys of gardening and how many brides you could put on a runway. Fashion Review: Spring Couture Collections in Paris — Fashion Review 2013-01-23T22:42:16Z Her latest collection seemed to turn couture, and the fashion world’s obsession with iconic shapes and structure, on its ear. Fashion Review: Comme Des Gar?ons, Rei Kawakubo, Lanvin, Gaultier, C?line and Junya Watanabe on the Paris Runways 2012-03-05T00:03:47Z Madame Versace's return after all this time shows that haute couture is not in the past. Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture 2012-01-24T00:17:19Z “And so even though I was wearing really crazy things, sometimes it was really important that it was still fabulous and very couture.” Dressing for the Multiverse 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The couture shows have been pretty wonderful this season. Fashion Review: Onstage or Backstage, a Kiss for Paris 2011-01-26T23:00:11Z Designs hitting the catwalk will include the usual casual urban streetwear, outerwear and couture gowns, plus colorful saris and other designs influenced by Asia and Africa. Seattle Fashion Week has an international flavor in 2010 2010-05-11T20:48:00Z The designer said the conical hats the models wore exemplified the classic couture feel of the spring collection, which was set in a grand chandeliered hall. Westwood highlights gala London fashion shows 2012-09-16T21:10:14Z She was a very wealthy American heiress who was having an incredible life on the European continent in the 1930s, living in Paris, dressing in haute couture. "Oh, Britta's in this?": Gillian Jacobs on playing a WWII hero and never leaving "Community" behind 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z If bulbs were couture, this would be Fashion Week. A reason to be thankful for a late spring? The daffodil explosion. 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z January 29 Couture Warriors Here's a look at another idea from the spring couture: garments with exceptional three-dimensional texture. 2010-02-11T03:47:00Z Emerging from Syracuse's net in a loosely knit sweater, she appears to be wearing a couture version of the net itself. Ondine Review: A Fish-Out-of-Water Fairytale 2010-06-03T22:50:00Z Precision was the thing with Pat, from her couture to the punctuation of her emails and so too with Barnes. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z Think of the couture shows of Dior and Chanel, which featured sneakers, airy layers and embroidery that nearly mimicked sports mesh. On the Runway Blog: That Positive Feeling, and Why It’s Shared 2014-01-24T22:11:25Z There were also windbreakers and a full-length parka — again, with a couture influence. At Jil Sander, Raf Simons Raises the Volume 2010-09-25T16:02:00Z Layering was almost a story in itself - and done with a lightness and a precision available only in a couture atelier. On the Runway Blog: Raf Simons Plants His Couture Garden 2013-01-21T19:01:36Z The French Federation of couture, ready-to-wear and fashion designers presented the study together with France's ready-to-wear federation. French fashion flags its economic importance 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z He is also smart enough to see that, with Dior going for the empty, open spaces, Chanel should be offering something different for its many genuine couture clients. Chanel: Vintage for Today? 2012-07-03T17:53:07Z She has me imagine my own couture wardrobe, asks me to help her pick out outfits for sleepovers and dances, and often reminds me that “clothes say something about who you are”. Hello Barbie: fashion-obsessed talking doll thinks I'm amazing – or so she said 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z As far as I’m concerned, Mr. Simons pushed things far enough: back to the start of couture. On the Runway Blog: Dior: Letting Loose 2013-07-01T20:50:19Z And as this collection was celebrating, silently, 10 years of JPG haute couture, the show was a happy fashion birthday, Indian style. Fashion Review: A Playful Mix of Cultures 2013-01-23T18:00:31Z Truly iconic architecture, the "haute couture iconic", is generated under two conditions: the design is groundbreaking and its location is sufficiently attractive to support the new building. The real iconic architecture 2010-10-01T16:43:00Z The cushy job, the spa treatments, the couture madness, the delightful brunches with your three bestest friends? Why "Sex and the City" won't go away 2010-05-25T00:20:00Z And as the couture shows progressed, I kept hearing more grumblings in the ranks. On the Runway Blog: From Paris Couture Fashion Week, the Shape in Things to Come 2013-07-05T18:58:27Z “We thought of the space partly as a Maison Jansen atelier from the 1960s, and partly as the rooms of a couture house.” Michael S. Smith Devises A Sophisticated New York Showroom for Brunschwig & Fils 2014-01-15T05:00:00Z Seen through the eyes of historic painters but transferred to today, the Roman house helped the winter 2012 couture collections to end on a grace note. Ending on a Grace Note 2012-07-04T17:30:51Z The remaining 40 minutes of the work, choreographed by Afshin Varjavandi, was nearly nonstop in its tides of motion, giving its seven young dancers in couture street wear a workout. Dance Review: InNprogress Collective in ‘Oceania,’ at LaMaMa Moves! 2013-06-16T20:52:12Z The reverberations of his decision to trade his Nike swoosh for a Uniqlo red square reached all the way to the gilded rooms of the Paris couture, where I was when it happened. Roger Federer Wants to Win a New Game 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z And though Ms. Chiuri has experience working with couture and ready-to-wear ateliers, as well as overseeing some of the most successful bags and shoes of recent seasons, she has never led a house by herself. Maria Grazia Chiuri Now at Dior: How It Happened. What It Means. 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The Rome-born designer, who shows his own ready-to-wear and haute couture collections in Paris, also presented menswear creations in the collaboration, including sparkling sequined trouser suits. Couture meets high-street in Giambattista Valli, H&M collaboration 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z “Haute couture and haute cuisine are a recipe made in heaven,” Bottura told reporters. Feeding the fashionistas: Gucci turns to fine dining 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Haute couture is a rarefied craft, specific to France, where a consortium governs how the term is used and defined. Perspective | For Melania Trump, fashion diplomacy was defined by a hat 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Once a commercial photographer who worked under the name Charles Settrington, Lord March has an eye for mixing tradition, vintage couture, extravagance and enthusiasm. Tales from the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012-07-09T18:43:04Z "Dior and I," by French director Frederic Tcheng, chronicles the first couture collection of Belgian designer Raf Simons for the famed Christian Dior fashion house and will lead the documentary competition. Tribeca Film Fest offers eclectic mix of documentary, indie films 2014-04-11T17:22:20Z It also helped that costumers were available to make everything perfect, just like it should be for what is essentially haute couture, he adds with a smile. Valentino's new runway is the ballet stage 2012-09-19T17:30:18Z Also its own uniform: graphic light blue and white smocks, “like what they wear in couture ateliers.” At Nike, Extending the Track to the Runway 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z And at Dior, he delved into the couture archives to add a touch of feminine opulence to his men’s wear. Kim Jones Wants to Rule the Fashion World 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z It also positioned the ready-to-wear in relation to the Givenchy haute couture, which has become increasingly precious and upscale. Fashion Review: Sex in the Saddle at Givenchy, Herm?s and John Galliano 2012-03-05T18:59:13Z On the catwalk, shirts are oversized and flannel, while archetypal 90s label Versace is back doing couture for the first time in 15 years. Stone Roses, Trainspotting and the grunge look: the 90s revival is here 2012-02-11T13:17:39Z In 2005, Sheen's company, Three Dog Park, filed a trademark application for "Sheen Kidz," a line of couture children's sportswear that apparently did big business in Japan. Charlie Sheen Catchphrases prompt trademark war 2011-03-17T20:55:41Z And so are you, in a way: walking the red carpet in Dior couture. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: A ‘Bling Ring’ Star’s Head-Spinning Trip 2013-05-20T13:02:17Z Today, she creates extraordinary pieces for some of most renowned couture houses, stage designers, jewelers and interior decorators in Paris. Special Report: A Cut Above: Designing With Feathers, the Old-Fashioned Way 2010-11-18T22:40:00Z In 1904 he joined the Wiener Werkstätte, the Secession’s crafts and design arm, where art and everything else — furniture, jewelry, dinnerware, couture — met. Art Review: Celebrating a Painter’s 150th Anniversary 2012-05-24T18:41:19Z One collection, for example, was inspired by a mash-up of 1930s French couture, 1970s West African photography, early Isaac Mizrahi and Eames furniture. Fashion’s Newest Star Already Has Michelle Obama’s Approval 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z All had a sweet, couture sensibility, blessed with the innocence of youth. Special Report: Fashion: Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga Mixes Heritage and Style 2011-09-29T17:18:23Z The results, both hoped, would showcase a theatrical couture style that is unique to the Tonys. Christine Ebersole Makes an Entrance Fit for the Tonys 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z A leading designer whose groundbreaking fusions of streetwear and high couture made him one of the most celebrated tastemakers in fashion and beyond. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Around the world, top designers are moving from couture to cuisine and opening chic eateries with plenty of good things on the menu. All in Good Taste: Designers Open Eateries 2010-12-16T12:50:00Z Allied forces gathered in a mirrored baroque palace at the end of the second world war, in dress uniforms or couture gowns or aviator fatigues. The Flying Dutchman; Medea – review 2013-02-24T00:07:18Z Yet nothing seemed so new: Balenciaga has done scuba prints; Helmut Lang first captured feather from couture and encased it in plastic back in the last century. Special Report: Red Carpet Fading Away 2010-03-08T18:30:00Z Forbes spoke with Taylor about the state of the fashion industry and why buyers have embraced vintage couture so passionately. The Farmer's Wife Of Vintage Fashion 2010-07-14T20:45:00Z “The feathers were dipped, the crystals were sewn,” said the nominee, extolling the work involved in the couture gown. Diverse shapes, sizes, colors dominate Emmys red carpet 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Lesage was revered for maintaining the couture craft and its tradition of making every stitch and attaching every bead by hand. Fran?ois Lesage Dies at 82; Led Couture Embroidery Atelier 2011-12-02T04:01:16Z I went, “Wow, these guys are wearing couture clothing.” Nile Rodgers on Chic’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Woes: ‘It’s Just Perplexing’ 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z But the collaboration was ahead of its time, and the purveyors of high fashion were not yet prepared to see a luxury designer close the gap between couture and the masses. H & M’s Ongoing High-Fashion Experiment 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Fashion fans might come to this memoir expecting a primer on Day’s journey from street style to couture, and there is certainly a bit of that. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Zanini had two aims: to make clothes relevant to the 21st century and that were “real” couture. Fashion Review: In Paris, Schiaparelli Returns to Couture 2014-01-20T14:47:27Z “It’s a welcome change at Valentino to see age, body and race diversity into the couture orbit,” he said. Race, age, weight: Valentino backs diversity in Paris show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z The two men agreed to continue to manage YSL’s haute couture operations. Pierre Bergé, Transformative Fashion Executive, Dies at 86 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Kim Kardashian, for instance, may wear couture on the red carpet, but she spends her time on E! discussing minor medical procedures and petty dramas with her sisters. Review: Mariah's World Tarnishes a Perfect Image 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z The event was part of the Oriental Fashion show held on the sidelines of the city’s haute couture fashion week, which showcases designers from Asia and the Middle East. Covered on the catwalk: modest fashion struts its stuff in Paris 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Nobody is betting that the brand will be a new couture house but rather a home for special pieces, made to order, if not to measure. Revival of the Schiaparelli Brand Continues 2012-07-01T17:44:02Z Cornejo wanted to create a couture T-shirt line because “every woman in the city wore jeans.” | The Independent 2014-02-09T02:00:12Z The Hilton-Reum wedding was widely covered, of course, but beyond glimpsing the dress – who doesn't enjoy cooing over Oscar de la Renta couture? – there wasn't much of a reason to care. Paris Hilton is her own purse dog – why even the socialite struggles with her engineered image 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z But unlike some other creatively dressed park denizens, Ms. Wiest’s geological couture is art, not fashion. Dianne Wiest Is a Boulder, but Not for Halloween 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Year upon year critics predict couture's demise, calling anachronistic an art form that generates little or no money in a profit-driven industry. Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture 2012-01-24T00:17:19Z One of the all-time great costume designers, she won an Oscar for “Black Panther” and could win another one just for General Izzi’s warlord couture. ‘Coming 2 America’ Review: Comedic Royalty 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Perhaps introducing a couture line, which he showed in the summer, has freed Mr. Valli to streamline his ritzy ready-to-wear. Fashion Review: Stella McCartney 2011-10-03T18:27:47Z Harrell channels Maggie’s tough, troubled glamour into an exuberantly chaotic runway show in which the dancers wear household items like couture. 54 Dance Programs, Festivals and More Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z His first brilliant stroke, smart and commercial, was to translate the elaborate sneakers of January’s couture collection into sporty footwear. Chanel’s Supermarket Chic 2014-03-04T16:13:15Z Why can’t couture reflect a more diverse world, not only in terms of cultural distinctions but also new attitudes about fashion? On the Runway Blog: Dior: Letting Loose 2013-07-01T20:50:19Z Mr. Jones will be responsible for the haute couture, ready-to-wear and fur collections for women, Fendi said in a statement. Fendi Selects Kim Jones to Replace Karl Lagerfeld 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z His staff dressed in the white work coats that were traditional in haute couture houses. Perspective | Martin Margiela did himself a favor: He anticipated fashion’s future — and its failures 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z As is now common with the aging enfant terrible, many convergent silhouettes were thrown into the couture cauldron - including draped hoods, men’s tuxedos and even silver silk sweat pants. ‘Calm’ Kardashian joins Emma Watson at Valentino 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z It was my first and last time wearing haute couture. Charles James and Me 2014-04-23T23:10:18Z While the Halston Heritage line showed promise, the couture line was losing money. The Men (and Women) Who Would Be Halston 2011-09-03T03:16:49Z There's huge excitement about Raf Simons's first haute couture collection for Dior, on Monday. On the Runway Blog: Not for Everyone 2012-06-29T17:35:13Z With Paris haute couture either in mothballs or fraternising with the Nazis, 7th Avenue finally got its moment. Diana Vreeland by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart – review 2013-03-01T12:00:01Z The designer, whose intense and personal work is the nearest to the original spirit of Parisienne couture, closed the autumn 2011 season after eight years off the runway. Special Report: Fashion: Ala?a Opens Up His Universe 2011-07-07T17:26:03Z January 29 The Shining Glistening fabrics gave the spring couture collections in Paris an extra quality of mystery. 2010-02-11T03:47:00Z Though his shapes evoke 1950s couture, Mr. Watanabe never lost sight of the contemporary street. | Fashion Review: A Good Time to Be a Realist 2011-03-07T07:51:48Z While the entrepreneur’s finds run the gamut from eclectic decor to couture masterpieces, each exemplifies the personal style that made Amoruso a fashion insider. Nasty Gal Founder Sophia Amoruso Curates a Sale for 1stdibs 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z China’s Next Big Import Guo Pei, a Beijing designer, is making collections on a scale that equal — and in some cases even surpass — the technical feats of Paris couture. On the Runway: China's Next Big Import 2010-12-02T18:01:00Z The couple has never been much for pomp and circumstance, generally preferring jeans and a sweater to haute couture. Queen's granddaughter set to wed rugby standout 2011-07-29T13:55:07Z They were also comparatively accessible, vis-à-vis past halftime looks, such as Madonna’s haute couture floor-length gold cape. Jeremy Scott, Moschino, Katy Perry: Who Scored at Super Bowl XLIX? 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The cheap looks were actually better than the expensive haute couture looks. 2010-01-29T14:30:00Z She showed images of women of all ages and multiple eras — in plantation dresses, African-style face paint, haute couture and streetwear — and of real parents mourning children shot by police. What’s Beyoncé’s Definitive Album? 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z But why should Mr. Simons, with his history of creating streetwise clothes, be interested in the endangered species of haute couture? Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z Between the words and the actions, it was possible to imagine the couture and how it felt to be inside it. ‘Models Never Talk,’ From Olivier Saillard, at Milk Studios 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Christie's also will be selling the star's haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion, accessories, 20th-century decorative arts and film memorabilia from her Bel Air home on Dec. 14-16. Elizabeth Taylor's iconic jewels coming to auction 2011-09-07T11:50:12Z In contrast, the Dior couture collection stood out for its startling lack of diversity. Perspective | Fashion shows are now 12-hour live streams. Or movies starring mermaids. Or mailed to you in a box. 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z He popularized tuxedo-style suits for women, known as “Le Smoking”, for instance, and made a transition from the world of haute couture to ready-to-wear clothes. Yves Saint Laurent designs get new airing at Paris museum 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The blurring of couture and ready-to-wear, the adaptation of Euro elegance to expectations across the Atlantic: The experience Dior had here flows directly into the story the Costume Institute is telling. Fashion Returns to the Museum 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z The show that kicked off the Paris haute couture season was romantic, dramatic and noble. Special Report: Fashion: Dior's Shadow Play 2011-01-24T18:23:15Z In buying Barrie, the knitwear company that filed for bankruptcy, the French couture house was putting knitting up there with other noble crafts. Wool Gets a Chance at the Top 2012-10-29T11:53:17Z And if relaxed fashion now seems more street than runway, haute couture is definitely feeling the vibe. Am I Done Suffering for Fashion? 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Its hand-woven draped collar in tweed showed off couture’s accomplished fastidious technique. Dior changes its face 2012-07-03T00:45:00Z Ballgowns takes full advantage of the V&A's newly lit and restored Octagon Court, with its display of red carpet glamour – where actresses in mostly borrowed frocks replace society women in couture. Belle of the ballgowns: a guide to the V&A exhibition 2012-05-18T21:52:01Z To slightly underwhelming applause it was, again, "interim" designer Bill Gaytten who closed Dior's ready-to-wear show in a balletic display of lowered 1950s hemlines that missed the exuberance of January's couture offering. Dior hems plunge, Lanvin celebrates at Paris shows 2012-03-03T02:46:04Z |
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