| Lynn Wyatt reached into her attic closet, rich with magnificent gowns, and selected a vintage haute couture Nina Ricci. |
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| Whether they are haute couture, designer trousers, or ripped jeans, V-necks can be tucked in or left out of pants, to create the perfect look. |
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| He used moire, a classic, slightly old-fashioned couture kind of silk for bomber jackets and sportive pants. |
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| Head north, and a 40-minute drive takes you to Antwerp, now a chic centre for cutting-edge couture. |
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| If you have a taste for the couture side of sewing, try a Hong Kong finish on all raw edges. |
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| On the door are squads of camp couture Stasi in suits and hatchet-faced girls with long legs and lists. |
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| Also, it is tied to outdated models of brand-loyalty and presumes a familiarity with the work of couture houses. |
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| They were working in fashion and decided at the same time that the key element missing was the sexy underwear to go with couture. |
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| Perhaps those experiences normalised the wearing of mannish jackets for women as much as the influence of couture. |
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| Once tailor made for the doyennes of chic, high-fashion magazines served up haute couture that only an elite few could actually afford. |
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| The haute couture collection bears the nucleus of the full blossoming of the brilliance that was the fall 2004 collection. |
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| Too many Russian designers focus on haute couture instead of less glamorous but more profitable ready-to-wear lines. |
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| With a couture frock costing as much as a term's student loan, high fashion is a minority pursuit. |
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| Constantly alter your new look with a dizzying range of haute couture hair accessories to keep everyone guessing. |
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| The French were all dripping in their finest couture, but Paris fashion was pretty dull in those days, to be honest. |
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| Most of the western haute couture houses are represented in Moscow, mainly in the Kuznetsky Most district just north of Red Square. |
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| These women wear haute couture clothes of silk and ermine set off with expensive pearl jewelry. |
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| Slender of thigh and elfin of feature, she proceeds to conjure up a world in which haute couture is seamlessly entwined with high culture. |
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| While Mr Saint Laurent's house of haute couture will close, the name will not disappear. |
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| The retirement of Parisian style giant Yves Saint Laurent marks the end of an era for haute couture, fashionistas said this week. |
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| Internationally acclaimed Beri showcased a combination of ethnic and western outfits while presenting her haute couture collection. |
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| He was thrilled at the unexpected turn of events that brought him into the world of haute couture and top designers. |
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| You don't have to have a wardrobe crammed with designer clothes to know your vital statistics in haute couture these days. |
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| They move among us, half-noticed and nameless, dressed in the discount off-the-rack couture of the South Asian sweatshops. |
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| Reviewers are likely to mistake, if not nudity for new clothes, bizarre glad rags for haute couture. |
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| We like any woman who can slip into a couture gown and kick her foot higher than her head. |
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| When models paraded down the catwalk in Dior's flamenco-style haute couture in Paris last week, fashion lovers here took notice. |
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| In truth it combines all that is classically French in style with the very latest in hi-tech bar couture. |
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| The owners of RyanKenny were quick to compare their idea for a couture line with the collections of their fashion counterparts. |
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| Designer Ralph Rucci has used them for his couture collections and even introduced rainwear made from transparent silk. |
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| His sidekick, Manuel, preferred a smoother look with a haute couture nylon suit and purple silk shirt. |
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| It also didn't hurt that his couture leanings elevated the designs to new heights of cool and desirability. |
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| These works also demonstrate the potential for the tutu to live on as wearable couture rather than a museum piece. |
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| Wise buyers of contemporary Irish couture should regard their purchases as future investments. |
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| And don't look now, but a top designer will soon be keeping up with some couture copycats for a line of affordable fashion. |
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| For the bold and the beautiful of Los Angeles, architectural collections now rival couture wardrobes. |
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| For almost four decades, seamstresses in this sprawling sweatshop churned out what was once the height of haut couture. |
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| With over 250 pieces, covering everything from couture gowns to bookbinding, the exhibition offers much to see. |
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| Today, so we are led to believe, we can create our own fashion statements by buying across the spectrum from charity shops to couture houses. |
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| Sliding open the room's closet, she pulled out a plastic-wrapped couture masterpiece. |
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| Everything in the shop is handpicked vintage couture, collector pieces, and different genres and styles of kitsch fashion. |
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| She became a couture model in the 1950s before quitting to study archaeology at London University. |
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| Many tops were corset-like, or had a exterior bra on them perhaps the sign of smart, feminine couture? |
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| The Queen put much store in looking the part and continued to dress expensively in civilian couture. |
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| I guess, I just find it strange still that people would starve themselves to fit into some impossible couture creation. |
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| But the splendour of the details reflected the skill of the seamstresses who spend hundreds of hours on each made-to-measure couture creation. |
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| For those unfamiliar with the finer points of couture, silk jersey is not a shiny pullover. |
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| Nevertheless, outside the rarefied ateliers of haute couture, few know his name today. |
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| It is amazing how the simple button, tassel and Ottoman quilting was raised to the altar of couture art. |
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| Her dress, something between a medieval period costume and the latest haute couture, trailed behind her as the wind lifted it softly above the ground. |
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| Summerville captures this ambiance with a mix of ready-to-wear couture pieces and original creations. |
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| Hourani credits Grumbach for his foray into the haute couture world, first asking him to become an invited member of the chambre. |
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| In the 1950s, Bill also worked for chez Ninon, a couture salon owned by the socially well-connected Nona Park and Sophie Shonnard. |
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| After the drabness of the 1950s, her clothes were chic and slightly transgressive, but not haute couture. |
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| Social change was documented through the fashion pages, and '50s couture gave way to mini skirts and trouser suits, which in turn gave way to kaftans and kimonos. |
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| But I do not see the future in terms of the couture that will come out of it. |
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| She rounded out the weekend by appearing the morning after the ceremony in a Giambattista Valli Spring 2014 couture creation. |
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| In his ethereal, cyberpunk couture vision of the world, the joy of design was constantly being pierced by melancholy and rage. |
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| Top-end couture will be represented by a collection of vintage Galliano knitwear, all of which featured in his first show as an independent designer. |
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| From couture shows in Paris to line-dancing in Texas, dita Von Teese pays tribute to the legendary designer. |
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| Monday, following the first Schiaparelli couture show since 1954, where eclectically clad women walked in flat feathered sandals. |
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| So yes, couture is alive and flourishing, thanks to wealth located far from its spiritual home of Paris. |
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| The selection of textiles range from a fragment of printed cotton purchased at a flea market to Parisian couture gowns, African wall hangings and Turkish robes. |
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| If fashion is more your forte, there are even pieces of haute couture and sportswear in the show. |
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| Claire Stern reports on this season's hottest couture for four-legged friends. |
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| His ready-to-wear was often created with the lavish attention to detail and the handcrafted quality normally reserved for couture. |
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| Jacqueline Kennedy helped change all that in the 1960s, with her unflappable chic and wardrobe full of haute couture. |
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| Iris Van Herpen and Delphine Manivet each have a technical mastery that falls within the luxurious customs of haute couture. |
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| The work consists of couture, lingerie, textiles and menswear. |
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| Choire Sicha heads up to merci Gap to survey the T-shirts, shop-kids and couture. |
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| In January, the newly revived Schiaparelli sent out its first couture collection in decades, presenting light, whimsical clothing. |
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| More recently, haute couture has even tried the romanticization of overalls. |
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| Despite an early focus on physics, her life changed when she became a model and began collecting couture. |
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| Her works combine magnificent textile materials such as haute couture fabrics, lace and brocade with more modest elements such as thread, cord, wire, ribbon and cable. |
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| The popular denim retailer Diesel is also using art to sell its sportswear and is taking the convergence concept even further than its couture competitors. |
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| That was when I started getting couture, kind of from the other side of the runway. |
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| Despite the attempt by the forum to insist on casual dress, it is hard to part many businessmen from their suits, or their wives from their haute couture. |
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| Ebony Fashion Fair commentator Jada Jackson Collins took the stage and once again the haute couture adorning the captivating models dazzled the audience. |
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| Once the preserve of haute couture designers, London Fashion Week is embracing the clothing revolution by giving official recognition to the high street and supermarkets. |
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| She's just scooped one of the world's top fashion awards, but will the rising star of haute couture ever manage to escape her famous father's orbit? |
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| The leading lights of international haute couture fawned over her. |
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| Upon seeing some of the beaded garments, she revealed that she used to work for haute couture beading and embroidery institution House of Lesage in Paris. |
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| Born in Stockholm, Sweden, the artist trained for three years in design crafts and haute couture dressmaking and created one-off garments sold in boutiques in Stockholm. |
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| The gallery is also littered with timeless examples of haute couture. |
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| Irish designer Paul Costelloe has turned the tables on the anti-hunt political lobby and reintroduced fur and feathers to his autumn 2002 couture collections. |
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| Besides the explosion of headbands and jeweled hair combs, watch for a continual rise in the popularity of all types of silk and couture hair flowers. |
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| I hate fashion, I hate the fashion industry, I hate the fashionistas, I hate fashion shows, I hate most of the couture culture, but I love clothes. |
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| Importantly, a variety of women sustained couture culture, not only as consumers but also as secondary designers, reinterpreting styles for their own bodies and lives. |
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| His collection brought a mythic feel to his couture creations. |
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| The reality is that any fashion, whether it is the latest couture gown or hair accessory like a scrunchie can work in the appropriate circumstances. |
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| Hence my production has taken the form of everything from gallery installations to computer programs to couture dresses to CDs and books, all using the same language. |
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| Of course, Hourani also has to get quite inventive to make his unisex creations worthy of its haute couture label. |
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| Whether she's wrapped in haute couture or dressed in jeans, she is always impeccable and authentic. |
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| It is the first book of its kind to blend a healthy, gourmet Kosher lifestyle and diet with haute couture entertaining, living, and traveling. |
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| They have been for centuries the base of such important Parisian industries as jewelry, clockmaking, gunsmithery, and haute couture. |
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| Even if you don't make the party, any of these fun couture chapeaus will lift your spirits for the entire year. |
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| But the phenomenon of counterfeiting is as old as couture itself. |
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| Beautiful couture dresses and sunshine is a winning combination. |
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| Classic luxury goods include haute couture clothing, accessories, and luggage. |
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| The expression Haute couture is, in France, a legally protected name, guaranteeing certain quality standards. |
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| There is weeknight partying, haute couture, and plenty of hooking up. |
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| The collection of couture and accessories raised pounds 268,320 and the black cocktail dress fetched three times the estimate. |
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| The English fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth is widely considered the father of Haute couture. |
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| His bridal couture collection The Mulmul Masquerade was a bespoke line of creative genius replete with handcrafted ensembles. |
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| The dress was constructed using couture draping and navy and gold fabrics combined with Swarovski crystals that have been handsewn onto the fabric manipulation. |
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| Given in marriage by her parents and escorted by her father, the bride wore an Ines Di Santo couture gown of ivory guipure lace with an Italian silk taffeta underlay. |
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| Imitation may be the highest form of flattery, but Chinese actresses are being left red-faced after being exposed wearing cheap knock-off versions of haute couture creations. |
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| Prof du Choc Laurent Couchaux has been at Rococo Chocolates for almost three years now and has had great success with his superb couture ganaches. |
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| Charles Frederick Worth, born in Lincolnshire in 1825, is considered to be the founder of Parisian haute couture, and thought be world's first true fashion designer. |
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| Fittingly, Kate flew the flag for British couture, opting for an ice-blue eau de nil satin fitted coat dress by home-grown designer Christopher Kane. |
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