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Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable. -- Christian Lacroix
I really love Juicy Couture - it's young and fresh. -- Dionne Bromfield
With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there. -- Patrick Demarchelier
It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you. -- Nick Frost
Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future -- John Galliano
I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast. -- Tommy Hilfiger
Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear. -- Ashley Madekwe
On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre. -- Andre Leon Talley
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST. -- Karl Lagerfeld
A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you. -- Isaac Mizrahi
Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet. -- Diablo Cody
I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war -- Kanye West
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. -- Alexander McQueen
These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a dream. -- Riccardo Tisci
After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team. -- Jimmy Choo
One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is. -- Jason Statham
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand. -- Patrick Demarchelier
I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching. -- Linda Evangelista
For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic. -- Giorgio Armani
Couture is emotion. Couture is freedom. Couture is not thinking about pricing and not thinking about craziness. You can do whatever you want to do in couture. -- Riccardo Tisci
I love cashmere. For casual, I like Juicy Couture. I love the beading in Badgley Mischka. I like Dolce & Gabbana. There's such a lot to choose from. -- Sasha Cohen
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately. -- Edith Head
With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear. -- Olivier Theyskens
I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay. -- Jimmy Choo
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month. -- Sandra Bullock
The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead. -- Rick Owens
Couture is more your own world, they come and buy head-to-toe - they buy the jewelry, bags, coats, dresses, bodies underneath.... But couture is not dead - it's taken another shape. -- Riccardo Tisci
Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it. -- Yves Saint Laurent
Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it. -- Amanda Harlech
Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In the beginning, I couldn't react. I was just working like a machine, because I wanted to make the house happy. -- Riccardo Tisci
I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the construction, along with the story behind it, make couture desirable to consumers looking for something that cannot be mass-produced. -- Carmen Busquets
When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help. -- Naomi Campbell
I hate the terminology of "costume" because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture. -- Christian Siriano
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. -- John Singer Sargent
After I knock out Randy Couture, I'll fight for the heavyweight title, the real heavyweight boxing title in October or November, come back and fight in the UFC in January or February. It doesn't matter, I'm a two sport athlete. The oldest man to ever do that. -- James Toney
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint. -- Alexander McQueen
I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture. -- Christian Dior
I'm constantly correcting young people and fashion students in this nation when they say "Well, I do couture." By definition, you don't. You have to be licensed by the government of France to do couture. So don't use that term. You can say that you do one-of-a-kind, you can say it's custom, but you can't say it's couture - because it's inaccurate. -- Tim Gunn
I just think of couture clothing as wearable art. So from - to that extent I, you know, I love having the opportunity to just even be able to touch and look at, you know, these pieces of design. In terms of, you know, is it stressful and does it take a lot of time. It's mostly stressful because you're there because you're nominated. -- Debra Messing
I believe that couture is not about shocking. -- Riccardo Tisci
I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture. -- Azzedine Alaia
I have a very haute couture way of working. -- John Galliano
I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture. -- Valentino Garavani
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I love bows, â?¦ And I feel some couture pots coming on. -- Yves Saint Laurent
I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism. -- Andre Leon Talley
Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling. -- Jojo Moyes
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.' -- Anna Deavere Smith
The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there. -- Alber Elbaz
Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money. -- Olivier Theyskens
Only in Paris do couture workers, from seamstress to mannequin, worship a dress and treat it like a baby. -- Pierre Balmain
I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture. -- Pierre Cardin
Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work. -- Oscar de la Renta
In prÃªt-Ã -porter now we understandably need to make the collection satisfy the big market more, so couture is extra special. -- Riccardo Tisci
[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work. -- Erykah Badu
It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing. -- Beyonce Knowles
I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962. -- Hamish Bowles
For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes. -- Donatella Versace
The Gucci woman can be the equestrian woman, the woman in the suit, the woman in the flowy bohemian dress, or the couture woman. -- Blake Lively
I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often. -- Emma Watson
The pret-a-porter collection will be the same as couture in essence: I love luxury, beautiful products, handmade with care, but at more accessible prices. -- Stephane Rolland
I've sold everything from fashion, make-up, couture magazines, radio, reality television, movies. There isn't a thing I haven't sold, including Tampax. You name it. -- Janice Dickinson
Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual. -- Nina Garcia
I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics. -- Ines de La Fressange
Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us. -- Christian Dior
A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff. -- Nina Garcia
I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven. -- Christian Lacroix
The couture client wants the latest things, but she wants the clothes to be super-special - the fabrics won't even touch or go near anything like prÃªt-Ã -porter. -- Riccardo Tisci
When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all. -- Trinny Woodall
It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste. -- Stephane Rolland
I know quite a few eco designers who build dresses out of old couture gowns. They disassemble, 'upcycle,' and reuse them in extraordinary ways. To me, that's a sustainable way of doing things. -- Suzy Amis

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