"It's essentially haute couture, and we know haute couture appropriates from minorities and urban communities," she said.
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Just hours before her son's death, Tina attended Giorgio Armani Privé Haute Couture fashion show in Paris as part of the Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week.
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For my wedding dress, he referenced a haute couture dress created the year I was born from memory (incidentally, the year of his debut haute couture collection for Chanel).
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Just hours before her son took his own life, Tina attended Giorgio Armani Privé Haute Couture fashion show in Paris, France, as part of the Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week.
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Colonna himself had been trained in haute couture — he studied at the ultratraditional Chambre Syndicale, and worked at the then-staid, haute-couture focused house of Balmain for two years in the '70s.
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Kidman wore a black custom Givenchy Haute Couture lace gown.
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What do you think of Rita Ora's haute couture look?
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This is the Haute Couture Naomi and I believe in.
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And lastly, Paris Fashion Week isn't all about haute couture.
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EST to catch this year's haute couture show in action.
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Her Givenchy Haute Couture gown had layers of golden fringe.
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Models on the runway at Armani haute couture, spring 2016.
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It was an audacious marriage of sculpture and haute couture.
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But, otherwise, her black Givenchy haute couture for the red carpet and her red Givenchy haute couture for her performance looked more like classic Adele (vaguely retro, covered-up, pretty) than Riccardo Tisci's usual designs.
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It's how our grandmothers created haute couture from mere sewing scraps.
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Kardashian West's custom Givenchy Haute Couture gown cost an estimated $500,000.
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An array of 31 haute couture dresses fetched 1.3 million euros.
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Haute couture week, fashion's grandest event, ended on Wednesday in Paris.
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I know I'm not exactly the target demographic of haute couture.
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Earlier this summer, Ross attended Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris.
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What do you think of Amal's vintage Parisian haute couture look?
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Slipping out of her Dior Haute Couture gown, Lawrence hit the
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She goes in for trashy Italian novellas and garish haute couture.
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But rest assured, Haute Couture will continue with a new concept.
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It's not easy to start an haute couture house in France.
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But for Chiuri, haute couture is, first and foremost, about women.
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But, with his long apprenticeship in haute couture, he came highly recommended.
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It's this laser focus on the customer that haute couture defines itself.
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From haute couture to the back of her closet, in 24 hours!
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Who knows what the future holds for the business of haute couture.
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Everyone is allowed to dream, this is the inclusivity of Haute Couture.
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Because all haute couture should be shown on computer-generated contortionist models!
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Examples in the exhibition range from haute couture gowns to kicky boots.
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Kirsten Dunst was striking in this black Christian Dior Haute Couture gown.
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CONTEMPORARY HAUTE COUTURE is often considered extravagant, sometimes superfluous and even irrelevant.
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The two men agreed to continue to manage YSL's haute couture operations.
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"In a way, it merges interiors with haute couture," Mr. Byriel said.
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His haute couture show during Paris Fashion Week was his last show.
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Olivia Wilde wear a pleated Valentino haute couture gown with open back.
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FASHION-PARIS-HAUTE-COUTURE-VALENTINO/ Valentino adds subversive twist to classic gowns for Paris show PARIS (Reuters) - Italian fashion label Valentino subverted classic evening wear for its Paris Haute Couture show on Wednesday, displaying traditional gowns with unexpected twists.
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His aim at Laurent Ponsot, he said, is to make "haute couture" wines.
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The fashion looks at Paris Haute Couture Week aren't meant to be wearable.
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Instead, haute couture works as a display of ingenuity, wit, and artistic achievement.
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In all seriousness, this is a very grounded, if rather haute couture interview.
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Clare Waight Keller, Givenchy's artistic director, has haute couture to consider next week.
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The postwar world of haute couture in London had its advantages and disadvantages.
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Saks isn't the first department store to sell wellness treatments alongside haute couture.
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That is because haute couture, by its very nature, is an archaic throwback.
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Kylie and baby Stormi wore matching custom Ralph & Russo haute couture emerald dresses.
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Some of our favorite moments from the spring 2018 haute couture fashion shows.
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Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week ends on Thursday with a haute jewelry show.
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In that sense, Dior's fall 2018 haute couture show felt like the eye of the storm that is haute couture week, which made for the perfect moment to take a breath backstage at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
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Melania wore a Dior Haute Couture ivory silk crepe gown with silk tulle detail.
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"Haute couture and haute cuisine are a recipe made in heaven," Bottura told reporters.
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Caitriona Balfe went with the same color scheme in a Valentino haute-couture gown.
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It was there that she stunned in a loose pink Valentino Haute Couture dress.
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Then came John Galliano's seminal Dior Haute Couture show presented at Versailles in 1999.
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Hers weren't to go to Disneyland or wear haute couture or meet a celebrity.
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If haute couture week isn't usually on your radar, we forgive you (this time).
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Lively, 28, looked stunning in Chanel Haute Couture from the label's Fall 2014 show.
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Its offerings include haute couture, emerging designers, "occasion" dresses, jewelry, bags, shoes and accessories.
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One of last year's winners went on to design haute couture outfits in Milan.
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For the 2017 Oscars, Stone wore a gold column gown from Givenchy Haute Couture.
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At the Victor and Rolf haute couture show, spring 2016, also taken in January.
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The vintage Givenchy Haute Couture costume was sourced from the label's 2007 Fall show.
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This was the beginning of Gaultier as an icon, legend, and haute couture master.
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The busy Chanel Haute Couture figure-hugging dress also included mulit-coloured embellished jewels.
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" His colleague on the project, Kate Lauterbach, broke in, gently correcting him, "Haute couture.
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Ciara attends The 58th GRAMMY Awards in an Alexandre Vauthier Haute Couture slip dress.
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The 82-piece Autumn/Winter collection marks the veteran designer's 30th haute couture collection.
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Valentino, a classic in the haute couture world, hits the runway on Wednesday night.
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In July, he wore a bright, casual outfit to Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week.
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Now, a season later, swimming caps are making an appearance at haute couture once again.
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Biel wore a strapless black Dior Haute Couture ball gown featuring tulle and velvet detailing.
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Verine joins from Chanel, where she has been managing director of the haute couture division.
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She picked up the piece herself from London's popular haute couture vintage shop, William Vintage.
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Meanwhile, Yves Saint Laurent's haute couture evening dress was also machine-sewn and hand-finished.
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As of 2016, her closet was filled with haute couture, but her wallet was empty.
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Treat your mom to some haute couture and a few selfies on the Champs-Élysée.
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I've got piles of books about home décor and haute couture all around my house.
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Chanel will show its next haute couture collection in Paris at the beginning of July.
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Of course, homage to different countries and their cultures is hardly new in haute couture.
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The Times's fashion director and chief fashion critic reflects on what makes haute couture relevant.
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From my point of view that's an old fashioned vision of fashion and haute couture.
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From my point of view that's an old fashioned vision of fashion and haute couture.
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"I love the idea that Haute Couture is bearing the torch for individuality," he said.
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Monday's show presented her second Haute Couture collection for Dior, which she joined from Valentino.
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A model walks the runway at Guo's first haute-couture show, this January in Paris.
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"Haute couture," like "Champagne," is a legally controlled French appellation, zealously protected by the Chambre.
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For the 2017 Oscars she wore an embellished, sheer, dramatic Elie Saab Haute Couture ball gown.
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Models dressed in haute couture and sometimes a robot helmet strutted down a stark white runway.
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Gaga's periwinkle, off-the-shoulder Valentino Haute Couture gown is set to be auctioned on Oct.
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The haute couture model just found herself dealing with a bit of backlash from her fans.
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It's the perfect blend of hood and haute couture, and contains SO much good glam, too.
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In February, she told W Magazine she has a "haute couture" fashion line in the works.
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Meanwhile, the Indian actress's gilded Elie Saab Haute Couture design was saved more than 10,000 times.
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Other designer houses unveiling their haute couture collections this week include Giorgio Armani Prive and Valentino.
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He also points out that Cristóbal Balenciaga himself recreated everyday ideas and motifs for haute couture.
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They're the men and women caked in theatrical drag, swaying haute couture headpieces and stage makeup.
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Lagerfeld has shown at the Ritz before, for three haute couture seasons in 1996 and 1997.
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Most of all, Bunny Mellon devoted her attention to landscaping, interior design, jewelry and haute couture.
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They paused before a bedazzled miter created for one of John Galliano's Dior Haute Couture collections.
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Regal, extroverted, a tireless socialite who loved balls and dinner parties, jewels and haute couture, Mrs.
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On Sunday, Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week kicked things off with the always skin-heavy Versace show.
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Luxury labels are accustomed to tempting fashionistas, and now they're stretching from haute couture to haute cuisine.
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Lagerfeld followed in the footsteps of Raf Simons for Dior haute couture in reviving this beloved pairing.
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Neon Demon takes the metaphorical route, commenting on the corrosive effects of the vicious haute-couture biz.
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Hadid showed off the headgear for Maison Margiela this Wednesday during Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris.
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Her Givenchy haute-couture dress had a high-neck top with long sleeves made from black lace.
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Celeb Muses: Kirsten Dunst in Dior Haute Couture, Naomie Harris in a back and white ball gown.
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But if ready-to-wear has lost its brilliance, then haute couture seeks more and more opulence.
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Cara and her four-legged friend Leo on the front row at Chanel's haute couture show. Swoon.
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The Oscar presenter paired her eye-catching new hair change with a stunning Dior Haute Couture gown.
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The dazzling, haute couture chiffon dress was designed by Madame Grès, a leading French couturier, in 1967.
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The sale's top lot, Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture, Fall/Winter 0003–1978, sold for €52,500 (~$60,000).
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"I see some beautiful wedding dresses on the haute couture runways in Paris right now," Klum explains.
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We know what you're thinking (because we thought it, too): another Chanel haute couture show about Paris.
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She's raised half a million euros in venture capital to send Haute Couture all across Europe. Farfetch
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Other brands presenting their fall 2016 haute couture creations this week include Chanel and Giorgio Armani Prive.
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Other designer houses unveiling their haute couture collections this week include Giorgio Armani Prive, Dior and Versace.
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Céline Dion made the sidewalk her personal runway everywhere she went during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week.
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The Dior haute couture show in January was a circus, literally, with a troupe of female acrobats.
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Sergeenko is the former wife of Russian insurance billionaire Danil Khachaturov, and a haute couture client herself.
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Yet her virtuosity is mysterious, considering that she has only ever seen haute couture in a museum.
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The Givenchy Haute Couture gown featured a fringed skirt and a bodice covered in Swarovski crystals embroidery.
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Cardi B went vintage at the 2019 Grammys, wearing a Thierry Mugler haute couture dress from 1995.
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Kardashian wore a lace gown from Givenchy Haute Couture and the rapper wore a custom Givenchy tuxedo.
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Monet-esque florals contrasted with leopard print, a carry-over from Valli's haute couture show in January.
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Gaga made a grand entrance earlier in the night thanks to her show-stopping Dior Haute Couture gown.
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A Balmain dress and shoes that certainly stole the spotlight, but made her a casualty of haute couture.
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That's pennies compared to Gwennie's custom Valentino Haute Couture gown, which probably cost as much as a house.
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Valentino's spring 2019 haute couture show proved you don't have to dress like a meme to go viral.
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Ahead, we photographed the cooler moments of Chanel's fall 2018 haute couture show for your viewing and pleasure.
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What's heralded as haute couture today could end up in your donation pile within the next few months.
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Paris Haute Couture Week is always a dreamy, opulent, celeb-filled fashion fest — this we know as fact.
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This marks the second time in a week that the mother of one has worn Chanel Haute Couture!
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Chopra, 36, stunned in a Dior Haute Couture silver gown with colorful feathered ruffles and a matching cape.
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A similar version of gown first hit the Chanel Haute Couture catwalk during Paris Fashion Week last month.
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She turned heads in a Dior Haute Couture silver gown with colorful feathered ruffles and a matching cape.
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At a Karl Lagerfeld 2014 haute couture collection, a model wore white running shoes with a bridal gown.
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Understanding The Times The Times's fashion director and chief fashion critic reflects on what makes haute couture relevant.
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Yet in its heyday, haute couture wasn't an exorbitant luxury — it was simply the way clothes were made.
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Gotta love the location for this haute couture event -- an abandoned subway platform in the Lower East Side.
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It was created by haute couture designer Debbie Wingham, and its decorations include diamonds and other precious stones.
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Certainly, the brand's inclusion on the schedule pushes the limits of what haute couture can — or should — mean.
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Its streetwear-focused designs certainly don't look like haute couture — which, generally, favors ball gowns over day wear.
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On the above image, we take a closer look at the making of one Valentino haute couture look.
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Haute Couture week, a celebration of one-of-a-kind outfits and fashion craftsmanship, runs until July 4.
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Amsterdam-based fashion house Viktor & Rolf's Van Gogh Girls collection, sculptural haute couture dresses inspired by "Sunflower" paintings.
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Afterward, he worked with Jean Patou, designing two haute couture collections a year over the course of five years.
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"It's a Christian Dior Haute Couture original created by a master who understood fit and construction," Nina tells PeopleStyle.
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That is, if we're still comparing haute couture to the more readily accessible ready-to-wear or fast-fashion.
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Vikander was also spotted visiting an haute couture fashion house in the City of Light, according to a source.
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Dion, 49, has long been a fashion icon thanks to her backward tuxedo and love affair with haute couture.
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Another post featured the star wearing a sweet mini-dress by Giambattista Valli at the label's Haute Couture show.
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A custom embellished Elie Saab Haute Couture gown in a midnight blue shade featuring an off-the-shoulder neckline.
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The 35-year-old actress wore a strapless black Dior Haute Couture ball gown featuring tulle and velvet detailing.
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Other luxury labels presenting their fall 2016 haute couture creations this week include Chanel, Valentino and Giorgio Armani Prive.
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It is quintessentially haute couture: Hand-made, custom-cut and fitted; worked on by a team of specialist artisans.
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It will present more than 100 examples of haute couture and ready-to-wear garments from 1880 to 2015.
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More than many women, she's in the public eye conspicuously not promoting a haute couture model of female beauty.
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In June, she was spotted wearing a $4,400 Chanel jumpsuit in Paris ahead of Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week.
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She started July with a navy-and-black ensemble for the Schiaparelli show during Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week.
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She then sported a gorgeous feathered dress by Valentino for the designer's show during Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week.
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The spring 2019 haute couture collections have glided across Paris's runways, bringing the twice-yearly festivities to a close.
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The jewelry designer Gaia Repossi bought a pink bleached-denim outfit and wore it to Paris haute-couture week.
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The photographer Landon Nordeman visited the fashion shows in January during the spring 2016 haute couture season in Paris.
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She also walked in Valentino's haute couture show last month and posed for the fashion house's latest ad campaign.
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He stopped designing ready-to-wear fashion in 2015, announcing that instead, he would focus solely on haute couture.
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Take Yves Saint Laurent's 1971 spring haute couture Forties show for example, which brought back the silhouette of WWII.
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Like her mother, Phillippe's taste seems to be impeccable, as she's chosen to wear a Giambattista Valli Haute Couture gown.
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If you were feeling some major 1950s vibes from Kirsten Dunst's Dior Haute Couture Oscars dress, you were spot on.
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THESE CHANEL SNEAKERSOnly the most haute couture of designers for the KarJenners – even if they're just going to the gym.
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Jolie, meanwhile, showed off her tattoos in a low-cut, strapless Dior Haute Couture gown with an accordion pleated bodice.
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The triple threat donned an off-white Dior haute couture gown from its spring 2019 collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri.
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They had previously attended the Valentino Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018 show as part of Paris Fashion Week in France.
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Aside from the strides of haute couture and pret-a-porter, that is, machine-based fabrics, where is the innovation?
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In case you missed it, Céline Dion was the all-star at the haute couture shows in Paris this month.
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But her front-row moment at Giambattista Valli's fall 2016 haute couture runway show is what really had us going.
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Making It On the above image, we take a closer look at the making of one Chanel haute couture look.
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Delevingne debuted her braided do front row at the Chanel Haute Couture show in Paris alongside her adorable dog, Leo.
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If embroidery is the DNA of haute couture, then the beads, feathers, silk, and other precious matter are the molecules.
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Okay, we're not trying to start any rumors or anything, but there's something happening at haute couture week in Paris.
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Technology, too, has been key, with virtual reality dressing rooms and live fashion shows to attract shoppers to haute couture.
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The To the Bone actress paired the jewels with Priscilla Presley-inspired hair and bridal white Giambattista Valli Haute Couture.
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The Rebel Heart hitmaker previously rocked a cheeky Givenchy Haute Couture design for the 2013 "Punk: Chaos to Couture" Gala.
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On display at the presentation were examples of haute couture mixed with technology, like this floating dress from Hussein Chalayan.
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Next, is a gown from Zuhair Murad's Haute Couture spring show, a sultry version of a traditional bridal mermaid dress.
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Haute couture fashion house Chanel is one of the several classic French brands to be listed as a top employer.
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Woodley and Volavola attended the Valentino Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018 show as part of Paris Fashion Week in France.
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The most talked-about guest at Chanel's spring '16 haute couture show wasn't one of the usual front row suspects.
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A, the 140-year-old Italian company best known for its haute couture accessories like beautiful feathers and lacquered tapes.
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The Pompeii-born designer's already ornate and skillfully tailored dresses lend themselves nicely to the French notion of haute couture.
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The collection features more than 390 pieces of Sozanni's clothing, from ready-to-wear to haute-couture, and 190 accessories.
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At the state dinner, she wore a black Chantilly lace Chanel haute couture gown, while Brigitte Macron wore Louis Vuitton.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Karl Lagerfeld presented Chanel's haute couture collection under a scaled-down version of the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday.
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She also stole the show during Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week in ensembles from designers like Chanel and Alexandre Vauthier.
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She then opted for a more ethereal look while attending the Alexandre Vauthier show during Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week.
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Lady Gaga walked the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival on Friday wearing a gorgeous Valentino haute couture ballgown.
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At Lemarié, she collaborates with luxury houses such as Chanel, Dior and Valentino, festooning their haute couture garments with feathers.
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She teamed her bright yellow Christian Dior Haute Couture dress with a red lipstick that really made her look pop.
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Nods to haute couture also played out in puffy, oversized heart-shaped dresses and high-cut leotards with exaggerated shoulders.
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Haute couture garments and the offices of seven conservation specialists are housed in the space formerly occupied by the ateliers.
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Theron's one-shoulder Dior Haute Couture gown featured a matching lime belt and a black train that flowed behind her.
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Lagerfeld had been ill for several weeks and was absent for two of Chanel's haute couture shows in Paris last month.
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There's nothing like the overhead fluorescent lighting of a public bathroom to give haute couture that je ne sais quoi factor.
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PARIS, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Haute-couture designer Karl Lagerfeld has died at the age of 85, French media reported on Tuesday.
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After the party in The Cotswolds, Nicky headed to Paris for Haute Couture Fashion Week with her mother Kathy Hilton, E!
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Cookie rolls in, wearing the most incredible sunglasses that can only be described as a haute couture version of Dwayne Wayne's.
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Haute couture is really designed for the individual and anyone who comes here is my blank canvas because I'm an artist.
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"Haute Couture is what gives our business its essential essence of luxury," Bernard Arnault, the CEO of LVMH told The Telegraph.
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Initially, Sunil adorns Amber in a white monstrosity that lies somewhere between a wedding cake and a haute couture-clad robot.
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He's one of the most important designers of our time, and one of the last living legends of Parisian Haute Couture.
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Shayk, 30, enjoyed the company of her actor boyfriend, following her recent work trip to Paris for Haute Couture Fashion Week.
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It was whipped up by creative director Julia Haart, a designer for La Perla's ready-to-wear and haute couture collections.
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Paris Haute Couture Week, a celebration of the one-of-a-kind styles that require meticulous tailoring, runs until July 5.
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Though still in the early stages of development, this cutting-edge technology is primarily used in haute couture at the moment.
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His look varies: He can be masculine when he wants, but he can also serve haute couture looks on a platter.
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It means the haute couture and the heavier material don't have to (and shouldn't) be mutually exclusive red carpet interview fodder.
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Showing priestly vestments and risqué haute couture alike, the exhibit seems primed to cause tension between the secular and the sacred.
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While speaking at Zaladno's Bread & Butter preview, Westwood offered the crowd of haute couture aficionados some surprising advice, according to InStyle.
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When he tried to get on her Parisian-chic level (look, ma, no socks!) at the 2012 Chanel Haute Couture show.
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Actress Rooney Mara brought major heat to the Oscars red carpet in a stunning Givenchy Haute Couture gown with diamond cutout.
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This weekend, the haute couture shows start in Paris — and a handful of new names will be welcomed to the fold.
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The most-talked-about example of the latex dress was, of course, Beyoncé's Givenchy Haute Couture look for the Met Gala.
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At one of Chanel's haute couture ateliers in Paris, a seamstress sews a temporary trim motif for the client's second fitting.
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Anglim wore a gray tuxedo from DC Tuxedos; Thomas stunned in a long white fringe gown from Naama & Anat Haute Couture.
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Her husband preferred her in haute couture, but she spurned fashions designed for tall, slim figures, especially after bearing three children.
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For the second season in a row, Vetements showed its men's and women's collections collections together on the Haute Couture calendar.
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The list includes designers, founders, CEOs, and heiresses who have made their fortunes in fashion, from haute couture to fast fashion.
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Today, it's where Vaccarello works, with his studios traditionally divided into tailleur and flou, like a true French haute couture house.
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Last week, Paris haute couture week featured a handful of shows from the likes of Christian Dior, Valentino and Azzedine Alaïa.
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FASHION-PARIS/HAUTE COUTURE-DIOR Dior's Grecian goddesses kick off Paris fashion extravaganza PARIS(Reuters) - Christian Dior took the fashion world back to ancient Greece on Monday with vaporous peplum-style gowns and shimmering golden numbers at its Haute Couture show, part of a twice-yearly showcase of one-of-a-kind outfits by top designers in Paris.
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Kirsten Dunst recycled her favorite Christian Lacroix heels from 2007, with her dreamy Dior Haute Couture ballgown featuring a high-low train.
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And last year, she wore her most varied look yet in a silver bustier top with sheer pants (both Chanel Haute Couture).
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For months on end, the fashion industry has speculated who would design Markle's custom Givenchy haute couture dress for the big day.
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This process earned Saint James the French government's "EPV" designation, awarded to just 43 haute couture and ready-to-wear companies nationally.
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Joel, the 60-year old grand-père of the atelier, who has worked for just about every haute couture maison there is.
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As Hearst and Rønning drove off together in a vintage convertible, she wore a Giambattista Valli Haute Couture gown, Town & Country reported.
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For an haute couture show that's meant to be the best-of, so to speak, Lagerfeld's latest offering was sturdy and stoic.
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The Féderation de la Haute Couture et de la Mode released a statement confirming the news on Friday, according to The Cut.
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Displays from Paris' select Haute couture club - a small circle of designers creating luxury, handmade outfits for clients - runs until Jan. 25.
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Portman, 34, donned a patterned, floor-length Dior Haute Couture gown that featured a plunging neckline and black sash at the waist.
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Now, it will add the Parisian label's haute couture, men's and women's ready-to-wear, leather, and shoe businesses to its roster.
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If your attention span doesn't allow for hundreds of pages on the history of Dior or French haute couture, that's okay too.
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"We produced a true one-off, a single unit car that we call automotive haute couture," said Achim Anscheidt, Bugatti's design director.
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"She dressed in haute couture, smoked cigars, and was probably the first woman in Egypt to drive and play golf," Mahdavi said.
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Because some Armani Privé and casual Givenchy haute couture are exactly what you'd wear to celebrate this year's upcoming achievements in film?
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Schiaparelli haute couture, fall 2019CreditCreditValerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times PARIS — It's cooled off in France in all sorts of ways.
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It's impossible to take a garment seriously as a cry of rage or despair once it has hit the haute couture catwalk.
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The question of why pink is so divisive followed me long after I left behind the exhibition's Pepto-Bismol-hued haute couture.
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I had walked for Dior Haute Couture which was located right down the block from where Dior Homme was, on Avenue Montaigne.
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This tableau vivant of corseted dancers encased in seventeenth-century hoopskirts resembles a painting by Velázquez inflected with contemporary haute-couture decadence.
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With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.
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"She is writing a new category in the fashion world that didn't exist," said Giambattista Valli, the Italian designer of haute couture.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Gems, tulle, rainbow feathers and sparkling details illuminated the runway in Giorgio Armani Privé's dreamy haute couture collection on Tuesday.
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She wasn't just my darling but everyone's, silly in one breath and serious the next, equally devoted to haute couture and Marxist theory.
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Sarah Ball, Market Editor: I should write a love poem about Wilde's Valentino Haute Couture gown, because the look is the total package.
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She and Weinstein had been spotted together earlier that year having lunch in Paris at L'Avenue during Haute Couture Fashion Week, MailOnline reported.
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The industry legend had been ill for several weeks and was absent for two of Chanel's haute couture shows in Paris last month.
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We, too, were guilty of reporting Gaga's periwinkle Valentino Haute Couture gown from the Italian fashion house's fall 2018 collection held sentimental meaning.
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More recently she chose a Courreges haute couture black trapeze coat in matelassé silk, circa 1965 for her baby shower in New York.
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Making It On the above image, we take a closer look at the making of this spring 2016 Atelier Versace haute couture look.
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Melania, 47, wore a black Chanel Chantilly lace haute couture gown that was hand painted with silver and embroidered with crystal and sequins.
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Her designs graduated from knitwear to evening gowns, of which she was the first — on the haute couture level — to fasten with zippers.
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Clothing manufacturers do the standard stuff, but also haute couture, because you can't know exactly how far you should be from community standards.
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The Chanel Haute Couture show, held in Paris Tuesday morning, is quite possibly the most high end, exclusive runway show in the world.
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Christophe Piochon, head of the French plant, compares the exquisite craftsmanship that goes into the construction of a Bugatti car to haute couture.
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One Instagram post at a time, Lionel and Lilo are proving that these pets adore a jet set life complete with haute couture.
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The couple shared pictures from their ceremony with Us Weekly, including the bride's unique strapless couture gown from designer Riki Dalal Haute Couture.
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Why this matters is more important now than ever: There's a longstanding assumption that haute couture clients are European, Russian, or Middle Eastern.
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The singer put it all on display in a Alexandre Vauthier Haute Couture silk chiffon slip dress embellished with a crystal leopard design.
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While she has stints at Calvin Klein, Gucci, and Pringle of Scotland on her résumé, this'll be her first time designing haute couture.
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She wanted to fill what she perceived to be a wide and vacant chasm in the fashion industry between haute couture and Gap.
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PARIS (Reuters) - With smart outfits and sweeping evening gowns, designers showcase their luxury creations at the Paris haute couture fashion shows this week.
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But after closing the Elie Saab haute couture show in a $300,000 wedding dress, she ought to be solidly on your radar now.
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When she wore it to church the following Sunday, 83 year old Cristóbal Balenciaga entered the world of haute couture and high society.
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"Hmmm, that's a haute couture dress," joked one of the press agents permanently affixed to the Valentino coterie, in past and present incarnations.
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However, now Simons has elected to do so not through haute couture clothing for women, but through ready-to-wear garments for men.
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Of all the ways to mix up the tried-and-true show format, an unannounced haute couture collection is certainly an interesting tactic.
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" Sandrine Stern, head of design at the family-owned company, said: "Haute couture and a beautiful watch coexist well in a woman's world.
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Her account focuses solely on the top-end category and precious gemstones, with most posts featuring her draped in dazzling haute couture creations.
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The first lady paid homage to France with a Chanel Haute Couture gown, hand-painted with silver and embroidered with crystals and sequins.
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The latter is certainly true at Vetements, whose coed show is scheduled to take place next Tuesday, during the Paris haute couture shows.
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The 23-year-old model wore a sparkly black midi dress with a cutout from Zuhair Murad&aposs Spring 2020 haute couture collection.
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The sisters and Paris glammed up Wednesday for the Jean-Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2020 Show at Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet.
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" Initially she tried to destroy his haute couture by tossing it into a nearby swimming pool, but "it just seemed like that didn't work.
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The group has already earned haute couture clout; "Hurricane," a single from the 2013 album "Secondhand Rapture," was featured in a Gucci ad campaign.
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There was one very important person missing from Chanel's two shows at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week: the label's longtime creative director, Karl Lagerfeld.
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Lagerfeld was noticeably absent from taking a bow at the end of his last Paris Haute Couture show that he designed in January 2018.
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The adorable pooch accompanied the 23-year-old model to the Chanel Haute Couture Spring Summer 2016 show during Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday.
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At the end of January, the "Fancy" singer dyed her hair a "dusty rose" hue, which she debuted at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week.
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The dress is part of Versace's haute couture fall and winter collection, and Jen rocked it during her time in the city of love.
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Not only did the 20-year-old supermodel dominate Paris Haute Couture Week, but she recently starred in Dior, NARS, and Bulgari beauty campaigns.
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On Instagram, the "celebrity haute couture designer turned caketress" explained that the cake wasn't actually made for Kardashian, but for a Kim K doppelgänger.
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Stone looks like an actual Oscar statue herself, wearing a sparkling gold Givenchy Haute Couture gown with a fringe skirt covered in Swarovski crystals.
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Emma Stone wore a fringe, beaded Givenchy Haute Couture gold gown to accept her first Academy Award for Best Actress in La La Land.
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In her May 2012 cover shoot, Diaz can be seen posing in a number of designer gowns during Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris.
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Aside from the lot of 130 'Haute Couture' looks, a further 170 items are on sale in an online auction running until Jan 30.
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Twice a year, haute couture provides a much-welcomed distraction from everyday life by transporting us into a fantasy world through impossibly intricate fashion.
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Meghan Markle's haute couture Givenchy wedding dress wasn't the showstopper of the Royal Wedding, it was her 16-foot veil, according to Paris Hilton.
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Only a handful of brands belong to the select Haute Couture club, as opposed to the fashion labels that present ready-to-wear collections.
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Gigi Hadid is starting off Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on the right foot — and even drawing some non-fashion fans into the fold.
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In June, she stopped by the brand's Haute Couture Fall Winter 2018-2019 show in Paris, where she snapped pics with Kate Bosworth (below).
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Before their trip to London, Hadid and Jenner spent their week in Paris, where they both modeled in fashion shows for Haute Couture Week.
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"She does have an incredible knowledge of haute couture, and that's going to be a very important aspect of her job," Ms. Golbin said.
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We've found the most breathtaking, Pin-able, bridal beauty inspiration, sourced straight from this summer's haute couture fashion week in the City of Love.
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For the past six years, the designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have staged biannual presentations of their haute-couture, or Alta Moda, collections.
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High-end fashion powerhouses are also looking to Mexico for inspiration, adding bits of modern and ancient Mexican culture into their haute couture designs.
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Currently this leaves me no choice but to paint animals and humans who not only model haute couture but also radiate an intuitive spirituality.
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The Fédération de la Haute Couture, the French fashion industry body, which confirmed his death on Friday, said the cause was a ruptured aneurysm.
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Josse, who was due to take part in Haute Couture Week, said partners working with the label "have been unable to ensure their collaboration".
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There were doll-like puffed cap sleeves on Dakota Fanning's Dior Haute Couture gown, and billowing bishop sleeves on Zoey Deutch's golden Fendi dress.
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It was haute couture by Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy, a British woman who was the first female designer of the storied French brand.
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The artist Judy Chicago posed the question on one of her 21 embroidered banners for Christian Dior's spring 2020 haute couture show in Paris.
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Photos of the singer looking more svelte than she has before and rocking haute couture have been causing buzz that she's gotten too thin.
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Haute couture pieces are constructed almost entirely by hand, and prices regularly range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single piece.
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Schiaparelli, for instance, labeled itself as "demi-couture" until this season; it was only permitted to use the haute couture appellation earlier this month.
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Appropriately, Mr. Valli's haute couture dress appears in a section titled "Extravagant" — "the domain of glamour, seduction and excess," as a museum label puts it.
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"Haute couture will always remain at the heart of the house — it's extremely important," Sidney Toledano, chief executive officer of Christian Dior Couture told WWD.
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And the entire point of haute couture-level clothes is that they're one of a kind; that they're made by hand is besides the point.
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The Australian rapper just switched up her signature blonde shade, and she debuted the new hue on a major stage: Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week.
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She denied the accusations and arrived in a custom embellished Elie Saab Haute Couture gown featuring an off-the-shoulder neckline and long train. 3.
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Let's not forget the bubblegum pink Balmain jumpsuit pulled straight off of the haute couture runway that she wore to the Grammys earlier this year.
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Amid the frenzy of all the Paris Haute Couture shows, one of the world's most renowned high-society charity events occurred in France on Wednesday.
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LONDON — David Bowie's legendary style walked the runway in a bedazzling Glam Rock spectacle during John Galliano's spring 2016 Paris Haute Couture show on Wednesday.
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Fonda, 82, first stepped out in the dress, from Elie Saab's fall/winter 2013 haute couture collection, at the 67th Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
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This man with a vision devotes his time to creating stunning, one-of-a-kind pieces for the haute couture-loving dogs of the world.
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Of all the Fashion Weeks slated throughout the year, the Haute Couture shows, while beyond gorgeous, aren't exactly where you'd expect to encounter many surprises.
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According to The Sunday Times, the haute-couture label is being accused by Kendall of taking and copying her designs for the royal wedding dress.
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Markle's gown was custom-made by the Givenchy team months before the nuptials, using only six seams for the haute couture creation, Us magazine reports.
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" Kidman, who posed for the magazine in Dior Haute Couture, also opens up about how she typically picks her roles, calling herself "the wild card.
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The gold lamé Haute Couture gown was created just for the Dior brand ambassador based on her "wishes and inspirations," according to a press release.
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On Wednesday, Woodley took to Instagram to share pics from the Valentino Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018 show, which is part of Paris Fashion Week.
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The actress arrived in a Dior Haute Couture gown featuring knotted straps, a wrapped, form-fitting bodice, and a full gray and white tulle skirt.
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Rocking a Stephane Rolland haute couture gown with enormous sleeves, she sang the tune as scenes from the iconic film played on the big screen.
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Chopra wowed in a Dior Haute Couture silver gown with colorful feathered ruffles and a matching cape, while Nick wore a white Dior Men tux.
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The duo tied the knot in matching dark ensembles — the bride, 37, in a vintage Givenchy Haute Couture gown featuring a cap-sleeve sheer design.
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Normally, when we think of going to the ballet or the opera, we think of elegant haute couture that doesn't distract from the main event.
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Bosworth, fresh off the plane from making the front row rounds at the haute couture collections in Paris, was ready for New York Fashion Week.
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Wearing a sparkling Chanel Haute Couture gown, Trump was every inch appearing as a comfortable and capable first lady, almost 16 months into her tenure.
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Over the decades, he collaborated with high-profile designers, creating haute couture footwear for Valentino, John Galliano at Christian Dior and Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel.
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These clothes are bespoke and tailor-made (read: you would only know about it if you could afford to buy it), with haute couture prices.
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Here the socialite is pictured at the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Spring Summer 2017 show with Diane Von Furstenberg and her granddaughter Talita Von Furstenberg.
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Part cloak, part exquisite body armor, this Boucheron capelet woven from 18-karat gold drapes around the shoulders like a jewel version of haute couture.
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The members of Paris's Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture have picked five guest designers to join the calendar for the season and stage shows.
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Instead of showing biannually as part of the haute couture calendar, though, the brand said it would accept orders on a case-by-case basis.
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I'm more interested in people who have made the outfit they're wearing, something they've spent a lot of time creating that looks like haute couture.
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And though haute couture brands might appear more ethical for dropping fur, their decision to part with it does little to upend the fur industry.
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Instead, there are dresses worn by celebrities such as Alicia Vikander, Taylor Swift and Madonna, a nod to the house's shorter history of haute couture.
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Although sustainability is an important topic in fashion abroad, from haute couture to fast fashion, we don't see those concerns (or trends) here in Brazil.
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In Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film, "Phantom Thread," the American director mines the larger-than-life personalities of that dusty era of London haute couture.
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Over the summer, she could be found at the cruise and haute couture shows, and in the pages of the June issue of British Vogue.
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Her slender, varicolored gown, embroidered in tufts of feathers and whipped up expressly for her by Dior haute couture, provided one element of the look.
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In April she released a new single, "Medicine," which features the rapper French Montana and has a surreal, Busby-Berkley-meets-haute-couture music video.
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She continued her streak at both haute couture in Paris and the recent men's wear shows, and will add NYFW to her mix this season.
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It's a way for the brand to dip its sling-backs into the haute couture crowd in a city where Prada isn't on the runway.
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Ms. Morgenthaler's creations have a romantic feel and an aesthetic harmony, easy wearability and durability, and, like haute couture, are meticulously finished, front and back.
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It's where Saint Laurent's haute couture house stood, making made-to-measure clothes for a clientele composed of the world's wealthiest and most discerning women.
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Models present creations by Dutch designer Iris van Herpen as part of her Haute Couture Spring Summer 2019 collection show in Paris, France in January.
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In September 1966, Saint Laurent opened a boutique on Paris's Rue de Tournon to sell ready-made clothes, rather than made-to-order haute couture.
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I ended the show with James Brown, the god of soul, Mr. Sex Machine, because it was the right ingredient to balance the haute couture.
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I like to wear nice clothes, and sometimes I even admire haute couture even if the nuances of which fall beyond my knowledge and experience.
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Rihanna may have skipped the 2018 Grammys red carpet, but she still delivered a stop-and-stare style moment when she accepted the first award of the night alongside Kendrick Lamar in a high-shine chocolate-colored Alexandre Vauthier Haute Couture patent leather trench coat, worn as an off-the-shoulder dress with matching knee-high slouched boots and gloves (both also by Alexandre Vauthier Haute Couture).
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Analyzing the evolution of fashion, from haute couture to the first supermodel, the exhibition promises to be an enthralling look at an industry in constant flux.
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In a matter of hours, she went from cropped plaid pants to a lingerie-inspired midi dress to Dior Haute Couture for the film's world premiere.
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Emma Stone chose a dress she could certainly dance around in with her gold fringe Givenchy Haute Couture gown with Tiffany & Co. earrings and ring. 83.
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A selection of luxury labels, including Chanel, Giorgio Armani Prive and Valentino are showing their expensive creations at Paris Haute Couture Week, which runs until Thursday.
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With Raf Simons gone, Dior's spring/summer 2016 haute couture collection, which showed today in Paris, was left to studio heads Lucie Meier and Serge Ruffieux.
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Led by an experienced guide from Extreme Iceland, Cici and Clements posed among glaciers, volcanos, black sand beaches, and waterfalls, all while dressed in haute couture.
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In the slideshow ahead, we'll be keeping you posted on the best street style moments outside of the Paris haute couture shows until the finish line.
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Hadid wore five showstopping gowns throughout the festival, including this red Dior Haute Couture stunner, and it paid off in pins — more than 36,000 of them!
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Jillian Ruffo, Associate Beauty Editor: I'm a sucker for anything shiny, so it's no surprise that Gal's silver sequin Givenchy Haute Couture dress stole my heart.
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She has also caught the attention of red-carpet watchers with her regal and elaborate haute couture gowns at several Cannes Film Festivals and Met Galas.
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The glossy pages, slightly sticky and heavily scented perfume samples, and the supermodels in insanely decadent haute couture designs drew me in from the very start.
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And Bella Hadid maybe the busiest of the bunch, walking for Chanel Haute Couture, covering Allure magazine and now, fronting a denim campaign for Joe's Jeans.
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The eclectic array of nominees, from breakout network stars to HBO starlets, showed up in everything from Chanel Haute Couture to custom Calvin Klein by Appointment.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When celebrated Indian fashion designer Wendell Rodricks sat down to write his third book, haute couture was not on his mind.
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She later wears a black dress with a white jacket from French designer Stéphane Rolland's Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2017 collection as she hears his confessions.
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Between celebrity sightings, pets sitting front row, and of course, Kendall Jenner twerking, Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week always gives us a lot to take in.
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Jenner rocked a La Perla haute couture number at last night's Met Gala that was visibly similar, and Twitter just can't seem to let it go.
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The Milan-based group has folded its haute couture line Giorgio Armani Prive and its home design brand Armani/Casa into its Giorgio Armani signature label.
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Images from "Astroboy" and Mobile Suit Gundam enliven haute couture with innovative graphic designs that blur the boundaries between high and low, and East and West.
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I don't know haute couture fashion that well, (the colourful staging of the runway was pretty neat) but judging by the crowd's response, it went well.
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The series is gorgeously shot, contrasting the gritty, wounded reality of postwar Paris with the bright lights, opulence and excess of the world of haute couture.
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At the 2015 Met Gala, Johnson wore a futuristic black and silver Chanel Haute Couture minidress, with bold eyeliner and her hair in a short style.
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And since the display itself is roughly equivalent to those in cheaper Samsung TVs, you're definitely paying a big premium for this wannabe haute couture hardware.
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Haute couture fashion week is open to an exclusive club of designers who make bespoke collections by hand and includes Chanel, Dior and Jean-Paul Gaultier.
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The Paris haute couture shows, which run twice a year, draw visitors from around the world and generate a host of side events including glitzy parties.
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In recent years he dropped ready-to-wear clothing, focusing on twice-yearly haute couture collections - exclusive, handmade outfits each usually sold to one wealthy client.
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In recent years he dropped ready-to-wear clothing, focusing on twice-yearly haute couture collections - exclusive, handmade outfits each usually sold to one wealthy client.
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"We have to be clear and communicate well," said Temple St. Clair, a New York-based jeweler whose collections encompass high, fine and haute couture jewelry.
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Lopez is the magazine's December cover star and dons a metallic green Valentino Haute Couture pleated cape worn as a dress that completely exposes her infamous curves.
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Empire Records has partnered with haute couture designer Helen von Wyeth (Gina Gershon) for a fashion show where Tiana (Serayah) will perform as models stomp the runway.
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He then joined the haute couture space, designed the famous black dress Demi Moore wore in Indecent Proposal, created the iconic Angel fragrance, and so much more.
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At the premiere of Girls Of The Sun, the star hit the carpet in a sheer, tulle Schiaparelli Haute Couture gown that clearly showed off her nipples.
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British fashion designer Emilia Wickstead is claiming Cinderella Meghan Markle's Givenchy haute couture wedding dress is a copy of her own design, according to the Daily Mail.
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It's 2018, and there is more than one way to dress like a woman — ways that don't necessarily include six-inch stilettos or a haute couture gown.
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Surveyors of Maria Grazia Chiuri's latest collection for Dior were probably split yesterday when the creative director sent its fall 2018 haute couture offering down the runway.
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Just recently, Robbie was spotted in a low, ribbon-wrapped ponytail with soft, face-framing strands at the Chanel show during Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris.
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Finally, she was spotted out in a gorgeous black coat topping the Dior Haute Couture gown she wore with Sylva & Cie jewelry to the BAFTA Awards, below.
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It depends who you ask, but akin to ready-to-wear collections, haute couture informs the fashion supply chain just as any other week of Fashion Month.
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But as the rest of the industry works to make runways more diverse, the same hasn't been said about one fashion capital — Paris — especially during haute couture.
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Alaïa was recognized throughout his life as a master couturier who captured the timeless beauty of the female silhouette in the most refined degree of haute couture.
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With her Chanel Haute Couture gown, she wore Art Deco-inspired platinum-and-diamond earrings, a necklace and three bracelets, including one featuring her own birthstone, aquamarine.
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Point is, haute couture is a totally different ball game, one we love to follow and obsess over biannually — and not just for the craftsmanship it represents.
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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.
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When haute couture was a thing made to order in Paris and Paris only, of French fabric, by a few esteemed designers handpicked by the Chambre Syndicale.
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It's a work in progress: She shoots her first campaign in a week's time, and her all-important first haute couture collection will be shown in January.
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Sonia Rykiel, 86, a French fashion designer who flouted haute couture conventions and created chic, ready-to-wear clothes worn by generations of women on the go.
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Dior wrote on Instagram that this gown fused "Italian craft inspiration with French haute couture" which perfectly matched the dreamy Italian ceremony, which took place in Sicily.
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However, haute couture was very new territory for her, and finding the right balance to root her in the dress and in the photograph was a challenge.
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Soon, other rival houses emerged, often named after haute couture labels like Balenciaga and St. Laurent, or qualities its members want to embody, like Xtravaganza and Ninja.
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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.
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Today, his house is one of eleven to be formally recognized by France's Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture — the body which governs high fashion in France.
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The 23-year-old model walked the red carpet in a sheer black dress with a midriff cutout from Zuhair Murad&aposs Spring 2020 haute couture collection.
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The range of soils and microclimates across 360 hillside terraces makes it one of Lafite's "haute-couture" vineyards, says Olivier Trégoat, who oversees its plantations outside Bordeaux.
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Mr. Toledano, for example, oversaw the folding of Jean Paul Gaultier's ready-to-wear business into its haute couture operations in 2014 to stem the company's losses.
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In 2012, she was inducted as a guest member into the exclusive Chambre Syndicale de Haute Couture — among the youngest of designers to receive this prestigious distinction.
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While sitting front row at the Alexandre Vauthier Haute Couture Show alongside Munoz on Tuesday, Dion's plunging black gown almost revealed a little more than she intended to.
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The actress, 42, attended the film's New York City premiere at the Director's Guild Theater in an elegant, strapless Dior Haute Couture gown with an accordion pleated bodice.
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The women stuck to a mostly dark palette with playful embellishments, like Zoe's Saint Laurent mini, Nicole's feathered Michael Kors look, and Shailene's sheer Dior Haute Couture number.
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The news came several weeks after Lagerfeld missed Chanel's spring 2019 haute couture show in Paris on January 22, leading to reports that he was in poor health.
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The Actress in a Leading Role nominee for her performance in I, Tonya walked the carpet in a Chanel Haute Couture gown with beaded off-the-shoulder straps.
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When the singer and the actress/model bumped into each other at the Chanel Haute Couture show in Paris on the Fourth of July, Twitter had a meltdown.
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"The rules of haute couture say that you're not allowed to sell more than three to seven pieces in the world," Schiaparelli's bubbly communications director Cédric Edon begins.
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At this year's award ceremony, the singer stepped out in a custom Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci gown featuring all-over embroidery with paillettes, pearls and crystals.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Known for his extravagant runway settings, designer Karl Lagerfeld led fashionistas into a serene garden on Tuesday at the Chanel haute couture catwalk show in Paris.
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There's a lot that can be gleaned from haute couture that isn't as prominent during the other fashion weeks: the makeup is bolder, the styling is more daring.
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The star's wearing Dior Addict Lipstick in Zig Zag, which perfectly matches her obliques-baring Dior Haute Couture gown topped with more than 156 carats of Chopard diamonds.
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Les Twins have grooved alongside other music superstars, as well, including Meghan Trainor and Missy Elliott, and have modeled for French haute couture fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier.
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All of our favorite performers and award nominees were present, from Emma Stone (wearing Chanel haute couture) to Isabelle Huppert (repping the French fashion scene in custom Chloé).
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From France's Chanel to Italy's Versace, more than 20 fashion houses will show their spring-summer 2016 haute couture collections, their target some of the world's wealthiest women.
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Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding asked his costar Gemma Chan to put a pack of snacks in the big pockets of her pink Valentino Haute Couture gown.
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Here she is Kabuki princess hugging tight the Polish model Malgosia Bela in a Richard Avedon hyper-stylized studio portrait, storm-battered orphans dressed in Dior haute couture.
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For the singers, wearing haute couture has been realizing "every woman's dream," said Ms. Malavasi, who joked that as a mezzo-soprano she usually plays scrappily dressed Gypsies.
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Encompassing 33 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.
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If the long game for Apple is to get a watch on everyone's wrist, however, the company will have to continue to expand its focus past haute couture.
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The Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, in her 210 collection "Crystallization," was the first person to send a 2100-D-printed haute couture garment down the runway.
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Jarrar's fashion credentials need very little decoration; her previously held positions mean she's earned the haute couture appellation and suggest a bright future for Lanvin under her direction.
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As the high school senior from St. Louis explained on Instagram she DIYed Beyoncé's Givenchy Haute Couture sheer gown with materials she bought at Walmart, eBay, and Michaels.
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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.
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To determine who will advance to the next round, the queens are given elaborate challenges, like creating haute-couture runway looks from scratch or starring in music videos.
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Set in the haute-couture world of 1950s London, Paul Thomas Anderson's film "Phantom Thread" brings a renowned fashion designer and a young waitress into a weird codependency.
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A spokeswoman for the Federation de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, which organizes the Paris fashion weeks, said the organization was not aware of further cancellations.
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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.
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But in January 2016, in the middle of the haute couture shows in Paris, Ms. Chiquet, then the long-term global chief executive of Chanel, was abruptly fired.
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At Christian Dior's spring 2020 haute couture show in Paris today, attendees were ushered inside an enormous womblike chamber, with a curved mauve ceiling and soft lilac carpeting.
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But when Chicago and Chiuri first discussed this project, last July at Dior's fall 2019 haute couture show, the artist knew she wanted to do something very specific.
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Ms. Khanh, like her fellow renegades Sonia Rykiel and Michèle Rosier, chafed at the rigidity of haute couture and the lack of spontaneity on the French fashion scene.
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It's the opposite of Yves Saint Laurent's distinguished cadre of haute couture clients, whose intelligence and culture were, supposedly, reflected in the choice of garments on their backs.
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There wasn't the sound of a single sewing machine whirring during our entire visit: Another hallmark of haute couture is that almost everything is sewn entirely by hand.
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New England Patriots haute couture-ist Bill Belichick was spotted in the wild yesterday, rocking his classic no-sleeves look and, I am pretty sure, cut-off chinos.
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Dion is later quoted in the lengthy caption, opening up about how she often alters her haute couture numbers: "The clothes follow me; I do not follow the clothes."
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The news comes just one month after Lagerfeld missed Chanel's spring 2019 haute couture show in Paris on January 22, leading to reports that he was in poor health.
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If there's anything else that lifts our spirits besides a politically charged Cardi B tangent or this video of a baby pug named Pepito, it's clothes — specifically, haute couture.
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However, the news comes several weeks after Lagerfeld missed Chanel's spring 22018 haute couture show in Paris on January 22, leading to reports that he was in poor health.
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It's not a descriptor that often comes up when we're talking about this hand-worked, incredibly detail-oriented craft, but it's fitting for the latest wave of haute couture.
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While the sartorial inventions aren't haute couture, many well-known brands, whether socks, swimsuits, or interchangeable heels, have made their way into the tank in the past eight years.
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Moreso of haute couture than ready-to-wear (and especially fast-fashion), it's easy to let the price tag of a piece of clothing distract you from its artistry.
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Jenner's sheer La Perla Haute Couture creation and Zendaya's Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda ball gown were among the top pins from arguably the year's most high-fashion red carpet.
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Steve Granitz/WireImage; Courtesy Chanel; Victor Virgile/Gamma-Rapho/Getty; Frazier Harrison/Getty; Courtesy Chopard; Courtesy Leslie Fremar; Courtesy Oscar de la Renta JULIANNE MOORE'S CUSTOM CHANEL HAUTE COUTURE:
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CHARLIZE THERON'S CUSTOM DIOR HAUTE COUTURE: The Mad Max star was so busy filming in Berlin leading up to the Oscars that she didn't have time to dress shop.
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At this year's Academy Awards, the La La Land actress looked stunning in a custom, golden Givenchy Haute Couture gown — that took a jaw-dropping 1,700 hours to create.
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"One can't help but wonder if haute couture would have emerged as a response of fear and the response of the democratic possibilities of the sewing machine," Bolton posed.
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Soon enough, she was sitting front row at haute couture, warming our hearts (that'll forever go on) in Titanic-inspired Vetements, and overall crushing it at off-duty dressing.
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Days ago, the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star wore a one-shouldered Giambattista Valli Haute Couture gown with a flowing fabric train that was both ethereal and stunning.
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Dion then made her way to Paris Fashion Week for the haute couture shows in the instantly-iconic Vetements garment, which she wore with skinny jeans and Gucci sandals.
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Jenner wore a baby pink halter Balmain Haute Couture jumpsuit with full-glove sleeves and a satin-lace belt, ivory pumps and Lorraine Schwartz jewels for the night out.
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Related: Chilean Artist Twists Early Disney and 'Looney Tunes' Animations These Disney Princess Are Ready for Fashion Week in Redesigned Haute-Couture Gowns A Korean Illustrator's Existentially Damaged Illustrations
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"Paris, London, Moscow, Hong Kong—everyone has the same brands now, the same experience," Eka Iukuridze, the owner of Les Suites, an haute-couture boutique in Paris, told me.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Luxury materials, exquisite craftsmanship and sweeping dresses take centre stage at the Paris haute couture fashion shows this week, where designer brands unveil their autumn/winter collections.
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For a group of people who are used to serious style peacocking, the confluence of these two themes brought together haute couture-level drama with Silicon Valley-level showmanship.
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When the haute couture operations needed capital in 1971, Mr. Bergé sold the ready-to-wear division to the Squibb Corporation, only to buy it back two years later.
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It is consistent, though, with a direction Mr. Jones has pushed at every label at which he worked — that is, men's wear produced at the level of haute couture.
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For Schiaparelli's spring 2020 haute couture show, which was held earlier today, the house's 34-year-old Texas-born artistic director, Daniel Roseberry, turned this idea on its head.
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That was compounded earlier this year by an invitation from the Chambre Syndicale, the governing body of Paris haute couture week, to present as part of the official calendar.
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Paltrow wore a vintage 1963 Valentino Haute Couture gown, featuring a sheer black top and sleeves that extended into floor-length feathery appliqués, with a white metallic column skirt.
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As the sullen, motorcycle-riding Maureen Cartwright, she selects haute couture for her celebrity client, who gives her blank checks but demands that she not try on the clothes.
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The other was figurative: She received a coveted guest spot from French fashion's governing body, the Chambre Syndicale, to present her ready-to-wear collection during haute couture week.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Haute-couture designer Karl Lagerfeld, artistic director at Chanel and an icon of the fashion industry with his extravagant outfits and striking catwalks, has died aged 85.
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Only a handful of houses are officially allowed to style themselves "Haute Couture" with a number of major brands including Louis Vuitton and Saint Laurent absent from the club.
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The look-alike to her Oscar-winning mom, 18, showed off her gold ballgown by Giambattista Valli Haute Couture as she entered with her escort, Maharaja Padmanabh Singh of Jaipur.
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First lady Melania Trump, wearing a Dior Haute Couture ivory silk crepe gown, sat next to Prince Charles, who is taking on more and more duties as the future king.
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Rumors about his health surfaced last month, when Lagerfeld was absent from two of Chanel's haute couture shows in Paris; the house confirmed the news of his death via Instagram.
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The look-alike to her Oscar-winning mom, 18, showed off her gold ballgown by Giambattista Valli Haute Couture as she entered with her escort, Maharaja Padmanabh Singh of Jaipur.
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And the red carpet is definitely the best places to people-watch: You get high heels, haute couture, and dripping diamonds at almost every corner, and for that, we're grateful.
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Kendall and BFF Gigi Hadid did a super-cute ad campaign for Chanel in 20163, which saw the pair sliding around a hotel room in haute couture and sock feet.
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The other reason: Winnifred's would-be nemesis, the scheming Queen Aggravain, is embodied as an haute-couture villainess by the incomparable Lypsinka, the red-bewigged alter-ego of John Epperson.
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Haute Couture originated in the mid-19th century when Charles Frederick Worth, an English fashion designer working in Paris, started making custom gowns for elite customers, like royalty and celebrities.
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Bob Zahn: The opposite of the world I came from in New York City, with its fast lanes and skyscrapers, billionaire elite, haute couture, and most of all, its materialism.
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The Chanel ambassador, clan in an archive dress from Karl Lagerfeld's fall 2013 haute couture collection, took a second on the red carpet to make a statement of her own.
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Brittany Talarico, Style News Editor: My colleagues did not offer me much support in my love for Moore's lime sequin Givenchy Haute Couture stunner, but I'm happy to stand alone.
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And who knows how many porte-monnaies sur pattes, or "walking purses," as haute couture clients are jocosely referred to, will continue to spend their disposable income on indispensable clothes.
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Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams at London's V&A Museum features over 200 haute couture dresses, among them a stunning dress worn by a young Margaret on her 21st birthday.
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Chanel granted all your childhood wishes at their haute couture show in Paris on Tuesday with an elaborate, giant wooden doll's house complete with a garden path and manicured lawn.
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Zoë Kravitz also opted for a feathery look, although a much more colorful one, choosing a Dior Haute Couture gown with a black feathered bodice and technicolor feathered rainbow skirt.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Italian fashion label Fendi played with textures in its Haute Couture collection in Paris on Wednesday, overlaying see-through bodices with fur trimmings and creating shimmering, scaly skirts.
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Gaultier quit ready-to-wear fashion in 2014 to focus on the one-of-a-kind outfits presented in Haute Couture Week in Paris, as well as his perfume line.
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Getty For our first Gaga-inspired prediction, we chose a semi-tame hair and makeup moment from the Jean Paul Gaultier spring/summer 2016 shoe during Paris Haute Couture Week.
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Though both women looked stunning — Us Weekly reports RiRi wore a Giambattista Valli gown and Delevingne wore a Burberry jumpsuit — it wasn't the haute couture people found themselves checking out.
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Paris Haute Couture Week - where a select club of fashion houses present their one-of-a-kind creations and showcase some of their most elaborate styles - runs until July 5.
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This year, however, she wore a beige silk spaghetti-strap dress with lace and crystal embroidery and a tulle cape on top sprinkled with Swarovski crystals by Givenchy haute couture.
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PARIS, July 4 (Reuters) - Luxury materials, exquisite craftsmanship and sweeping dresses take centre stage at the Paris haute couture fashion shows this week, where designer brands show their autumn collections.
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Along with then-Trump supporter and Vogue editor André Leon Talley, fashion news director Sally Singer chronicled the bride-to-be's shopping trip during Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris.
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Following their European nuptials, Chopra and Nick extended their stay, taking some time to attend the Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2019-2020 fashion show in Paris on Monday.
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Mirren's Schiaparelli Haute Couture A-line gown is beautiful, but we also have to give a special shout out to the Harry Winston diamonds on her necklace, earrings, and bracelet.
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For more than 20 years, Guo Pei, the first Chinese national designer invited to join the prestigious Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, has dressed celebrities, royalty and political elite.
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The hall's Spanish iron choir screen frames an eye-popping haute couture ensemble by John Galliano for Dior in 2000-1, with a beaded headpiece shaped like a bishop's mitre.
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A far more powerful form of protest came from Natalie Portman, who had the names of snubbed women directors embroidered onto her black Dior Haute Couture cape in gold thread.
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In recent years, he launched his lively and eccentric "Fashion Freak Show", a musical production looking back on his life from childhood classroom sketches to the Paris haute couture catwalks.
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And our fashion critic, in reviewing Dior and Chanel shows in Paris, notes that rarely has there been so much synergy between the city and haute couture as these days.
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The latest incarnation of the Dior VIII Grand Bal Plume, introduced in January to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Rooster, explicitly attempted to combine haute horology with haute couture.
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This debutante ball goes a step farther than the rest— the gowns are only haute couture and the proud fathers are the richest and most famous men in the world.
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According to the star's stylists, Nina and Clare Hallworth, the custom black silk faille gown was inspired by the "Sonnet" dress from Christian Dior's Autumn/Winter Haute Couture collection from 1952.
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The collective brought a unique vision to the haute couture art form: "For us, the couture approach is to use the know-how of these manufacturers," Demna Gvasalia explained to WWD.
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Meghan, 37, who is due to give birth in late April, wore a vintage 1960s brown silk coat by Dior Haute Couture and small navy blue beret for the special day.
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The trio, along with other celebrities like Kirsten Dunst, showed off their style at the Christian Dior Haute Couture fashion show held during Paris Fashion Week on Monday in Paris, France.
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He's also known for his haute couture evening gown designs for women, which have "made more than a few famous women feel like empresses on the red carpet," according to Vogue.
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It's possible to be both nostalgic for that time and discomfited by it—to believe that haute couture is one of the glories of culture and an emblem of its excesses.
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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.
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The Wuhan native took her first-ever turn on the runway in October, as a Givenchy spring/summer 2018 exclusive, and she walked in the house's haute couture show last month.
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Then I found out that the sack dress is actually haute couture, an invention of Cristóbal Balenciaga and/or Hubert de Givenchy, and a harbinger of 1960s minis and shift dresses.
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One of Musgrave's standout looks of the year came at the Grammys, where she wore a nude tulle Valentino Haute Couture gown featuring a pleated strapless neckline and berry-colored belt.
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With Frederic Tscheng's film team in tow — recording for the documentary feature "Dior and I" — Simons produced his first Dior collection (and first haute couture outing) in an incredible eight weeks.
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"High jewelry and haute couture both command the question as to where luxury product ends and art begins," said Rebecca Robins, global chief learning and culture officer at the consultancy Interbrand.
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A guest member needs a Paris atelier and a certain number of petites mains—a house's skilled artisans, most of them women, who do the hand sewing that defines haute couture.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Necklaces dripping with emeralds took centre-stage at Paris Haute Couture Week on Thursday as Chopard and other jewelers joined fashion houses in showing off their most elaborate creations.
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Those rules have been rewritten a number of times: Haute couture was first formalized after World War II in 1945, when rules were first implemented to prevent misuse of the name.
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Likewise, Rihanna&aposs impeccable style, a makeup brand that shines on all skin tones, lingerie that glorifies all bodies, and haute-couture collections celebrating immigrant heritage have all been exciting developments.
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John Galliano is vocal about his pyramidical way of working, in which ideas from his haute couture Artisanal collections for Maison Margiela trickle down to the brand's ready-to-wear propositions.
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It marked the first time that Givenchy, which is one of the 15 official members of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, would open its specialized ateliers to men's wear.
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Thierry Mugler: Couturissime gathers more than 150 haute couture and ready-to-wear ensembles created between 1977 and 2014 from collections around the world, including the designer's own 7,83-item archive.
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In the spirit of Martin Margiela and his groundbreaking concept of making haute couture from only repurposed materials (as it is well documented at the exhibition Margiela/Galliera, 1989-2009, currently on display at the Palais Galliera in Paris) as the first syndicated by Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, we're featuring a string of young designers who have chosen different ways of creating less environmental impactful garments without compromising forward-thinking and trendsetting design.
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"Did people say they wanted a pic of Cheryl from this week's Riverdale?" he tweeted, along with a shot of Cheryl, played by Madelaine Petsch, looking like an haute couture Katniss Everdeen.
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And though you may not have sat under Dior's spring 2019 haute couture tent to take it all in (yes, that's a thing), consider this your front row seat to the magic.
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The West Coast event, which may not have been top-of-mind for Cowan loyalists, resulted in an unexpected chance for the ready-to-wear designer to flex his haute couture muscles.
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Most famously of course, Lady Gaga in her custom Valentino gown from the house's Haute Couture fall 2018 collection she wore as an homage to Judy Garland at the 2019 Golden Globes.
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Lagerfeld's second-in-command for most of his tenure at Chanel, Viard has been bowing alongside him at recent Chanel shows, and took his place at its spring 2019 haute couture event.
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Michelle Obama looked stunning in a shimmering gold Givenchy Haute Couture dress at her final appearance as First Lady at Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C. OLIVIER DOULIERY/SIPA
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This sheer black heavily embellished Givenchy Haute Couture gown was the picture of edgy elegance, with its deep-V cut mirrored by a thigh-high slit up the middle of the gown.
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John Shearer/Getty (2) While we usually reserve our "Most Naked" award of the night for Jennifer Lopez, she surprisingly covered up in a bright yellow caped Giambattista Valli Haute Couture gown.
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But despite appearances, these celebrities are only just warming up, beginning with Rihanna and Bella Hadid who arrived at Friday's Okja premiere in some understated, yet seriously elegant Dior Haute Couture outfits.
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On Saturday, November 25, Witherspoon's not-so-little girl Ava Phillippe made her debutante debut, attending the 5th annual Bal des Debutantes in Paris in a gold Giambattista Valli Haute Couture ballgown.
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The French actress is a huge supporter of the brand, as she's proven on the red carpet (most recently at the Cannes Film Festival in a custom gold lamé Haute Couture gown).
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The Fendi show was octogenerian German designer Karl Lagerfeld's second outing at Haute Couture week in Paris - the season of fashion shows celebrating one-off creations by a select group of houses.
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Just as not every brand celebrated for its calculated disruption and assault on the status quo is invited to be part of the most elite week in fashion, during the haute couture.
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Obama's haute couture gown is one of the most daring looks she's worn to date: it featured a bustier-style top, and was covered from top to bottom with a jewel overlay.
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As of late May, many but not all of the 90 available rooms were booked for opening day and almost sold out for the city's haute couture fashion week in early July.
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"China Machado was one of the first great pioneers in the firmament of haute couture," André Leon Talley, the former Vogue editor at large and the fashion and style director of i.
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CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM FASHIONS From London streetwear and Malaysian haute couture to innovations like the "burkini," the range of what can be called Muslim dress around the world is astonishing. Sept. 31-Jan.
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Challenges ran the gamut from turning 216-cent store items into haute couture, hosting talk shows, and voguing down the runway à la the seminal New York nightlife documentary Paris Is Burning.
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Baradji debuted on the spring/summer 2018 Balenciaga runway, posed for Jacquemus's spring ad campaign and then walked for Kenzo and Givenchy Haute Couture last month — basically the coolest fashion C.V. imaginable.
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On Thursday, the singer, 31, declared she's "really happy" as she stepped out at her 5th annual Diamond Ball, wearing a black Givenchy Haute Couture mermaid gown, red lipstick and pearl earrings.
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For the glamorous night out, the rapper and Hustlers star stunned in a tiered, light pink gown, while Rihanna wore a black Givenchy Haute Couture mermaid dress, red lipstick and pearl earrings.
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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.
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From the 1860s until today, New York has been the center of the country's fashion industry, whether manufacturing uniforms for Union soldiers or designing American-made haute couture gowns for first ladies.
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Measuring just 33 square miles in size, the sunny and cool island is stuffed with hip boutique hotels, thumping beach clubs, haute couture shops, white sandy beaches, whitewashed alleyways, and swanky restaurants.
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"Although it might be fabulous, I think it needs to be, like, that next step of that woman who literally wears haute couture on the street to the grocery store," Siriano says.
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His spring/summer 1990 haute couture collection featured a series of homages — to his mentor Christian Dior, to the inspiration he found in Coco Chanel's work, and to his couture house itself.
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If the plunging neckline and high leg slit weren't statement-making enough, all the cutaway details in her long sleeve look made it appear like she was wearing the most haute couture netting.
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The pop singer turned A Star Is Born actress walked the 2019 Golden Globes red carpet in a custom icy blue Valentino gown from the Italian fashion house's Haute Couture fall 2018 collection.
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Rather than taking a few years off, as many expected her to do, she instead became more public than ever, frequenting haute couture shows and gaining a new following of enthusiastic fashion fanatics.
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Running now through September 3 in Paris, the Mark Shaw, Paris Haute Couture retrospective features never-before-seen images of behind-the-scenes magic at couture fashion week during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Making It Yesterday's spring/summer 2016 haute couture show marked Dior's first show since the departure of Raf Simons — and the first designed by the house's studio heads, Lucie Meier and Serge Ruffieux.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri unveiled a fairytale-like debut haute couture collection for French fashion house Christian Dior on Monday, presenting flowing flowery dresses, capes and plenty of intricate craftsmanship.
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Lindy Segal, Style Social Editor: It's really too bad Khaleesi never gets to wear shades of pink in Game of Thrones, because Emilia Clarke looks incredible in this fuchsia Dior Haute Couture ballgown.
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The singer stunned in Givenchy Haute Couture for the fifth year in a row (see below), but this time she ditched her signature train in favor of a slightly flared mermaid-style finish.
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At a time when women are reclaiming suits and thrusting them into a different kind of spotlight, Givenchy's latest haute couture collection was a thoughtful reminder of just how powerful fashion can be.
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To walk this exclusive runway, Ava opted for Giambattista Valli, an Italian designer who launched his first ready-to-wear line in 2005 and six years later showed his first haute couture line.
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Gaultier, who has dressed a spate of celebrities from Oscar winner Marion Cotillard to singer Lady Gaga, quit ready-to-wear fashion in 2014 to focus on haute couture and his perfume line.
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Kloss debuted her new hair color, courtesy of celebrity colorist Karla Welch, this weekend in Paris, where she made appearances at the Christian Dior Fall/Winter Haute Couture show and Vogue Foundation Dinner.
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The Givenchy Haute Couture gown was equal parts elegant and edgy, featuring a black velvet one-shoulder top and sleek silver metal belt, plus a stunning skirt made of metallic-tinted ostrich feathers.
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Princess Diana's niece and the eldest of the three Spencer sisters, 25, gave Dior a dash of royalty today when she attended the fashion house's spring-summer 2016 haute couture show in Paris.
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For the red carpet, she chose a nude tulle Valentino Haute Couture gown that nodded to her award-winning album: The bodice of her gown resembled the fan on the Golden Hour cover.
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Elyssa Dimant's "The New French Couture" (Harper Design, $85, 280 pp.) is an immersive introduction to the eight most stalwart bastions of the haute couture tradition, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Dior among them.
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In the billion-dollar deal, Mr. Bergé and Mr. Saint Laurent retained control of the haute couture division and the company's headquarters at 19803 Avenue Marceau, which they had been leasing since 21980.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Italian designer Pierpaolo Piccioli went for an explosion of bold colors at Valentino's Haute Couture collection, switching from mustard yellow to fuchsia to azure with supermodel Gigi Hadid walking in purple.
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"At first, I didn't understand what the value of costume jewelry was, because these women can obviously afford the real thing," Roseberry admitted in the atelier, referring to the house's haute couture clientele.
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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.
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Toledano said sales growth at Christian Dior Haute Couture and Maison Christian Dior as a whole was in the double-digits in the fourth quarter of 2016 and the first quarter of 12.83.
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Once she switches from her street-sweeper rags into Parisian haute couture (the costumes are by Linda Cho) you may discern a resemblance to that current fashion plate of American royalty, Ivanka Trump.
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And while her use of technology is a foundational — and often mind-bending — aspect of her work, just as compelling is her dedication to the painstaking hand craftsmanship that characterizes traditional haute couture.
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At 50 Central Park South, Susan Carmel Lehrman, a philanthropist, sold her apartment, No. 24B, for $20.5 million to Yizheng Zhao, the founder of RedStone Haute Couture, a Chinese luxury brand management company.
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Ralph & Russo is known for its elevated elegance, and in 2014, became the first British brand invited by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture to show during couture in almost a century.
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Two days later, Korean rap sensation G-Dragon arrived at Chanel's haute couture show in a sequined Karl Lagerfeld number that recalled Bianca Jagger's memorable red paillette beret from her Studio 54 days.
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The theme for the 20163 Met Gala, "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," was intended to celebrate haute couture while also appreciating the role technology has played in moving fashion forward.
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But obviously, if we've learned anything at all from a royal wedding dress, a custom Lady Gaga look, or the unplanned social media impact of haute couture week, it's so much more than that.
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Lindy Segal, Style Social Editor: I almost went with Brie Larson's ruffled Oscar de la Renta, but Ruth Negga's Valentino Haute Couture gown is the one I know I'll remember for years to come.
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During night one of the American Idol finals on Sunday, the pop star, 33, got really honest about the Givenchy Haute Couture gown Meghan wore to marry Prince Harry at Windsor Castle on Saturday.
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At the red carpet event, the actor looked dapper in head-to-toe black while the human rights lawyer was a standout in a Giambattista Valli Haute Couture 6 floral red-and-white minidress.
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Ava, who's one of six American debutantes out of a total of 20, will wear a gown by Giambattista Valli Haute Couture, and will be accompanied by her escort, Maharaja Padmanabh Singh of Jaipur.
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Rihanna's spring '17 Fenty presentation took place at the very swanky Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild — a popular venue for fashion events in Paris, hosting Valentino Haute Couture shows and Kenzo parties in past seasons.
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The 30-year-old singer put it all on display in a Alexandre Vauthier Haute Couture silk chiffon slip dress embellished with a crystal leopard design, featuring a slit that passed her hip bone.
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Though Azzedine Alaïa started his career exclusively with haute couture-level creations in Paris circa 1981, the designer abandoned this intricate, old world artform in 2011 (after a previous eight year break, no less).
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"I'm not afraid to be extremely goofy in a serious settings," said Dilone, who recently scooped up a number of haute couture slots and is one of our 11 models to watch this season.
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Jennifer Lawrence just set the red carpet afire in a plunging, sheer Dior Haute Couture gown at this weekend's Oscars, but in her spring ads for the brand, everything is toned way, way down.
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The star wrapped herself up in a bow-adorned ball skirt worn over her lace high-collar jumpsuit (a look from the Alexis Mabille Fall 2018 Haute Couture collection) for the black-tie affair.
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While everyone's busy gushing over Adele's green Givenchy Haute Couture gown, I would like to give a major shout out to my No. 1 diva Celine Dion for her grand entrance in shimmering emerald.
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"You Should Let Me Be Right For A Minute🔓" she captioned the sultry snap, which appeared to be taken from the Dior Masquerade Ball earlier this month during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week.
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For haute couture, brands like Valentino, Jean Paul Gaultier, Dior, Schiaparelli, and Armani lead the charge with more models of color than you can count on two hands (including Asian and Middle Eastern models).
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Much of the focus was on Kerr's Dior Haute Couture dress, channelling a classical Hollywood charm; it was inspired by the dress Grace Kelly wore when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956.
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Mr. Zhang, born in Qingdao, China and based in London, gained experience in Dior's haute couture atelier before introducing his namesake label in 2011 and having his London Fashion Week debut in September 2012.
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On a new episode of VICELAND's STATES OF UNDRESS, host Hailey Gates treks to Beirut to see how French Lebanese designer Dany Atrache puts together his lavish collections for Paris's famed haute couture season.
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With the haute couture shows a constant backdrop to the unveiling of these collections, and this being Paris, it was hardly surprising that some houses opted to explore the magic of the fashion atelier.
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Confections like a scarlet faille couture cape embroidered with purple and hot-pink bougainvillea and an African-inspired beaded minidress from the 1967 Bambara haute-couture collection will hang in the permanent exhibition hall.
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All applications must go through the exacting Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, the governing body that requires brands to submit information on points of sale and annual turnover, as well as previous lookbooks.
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Premium audio brand Master & Dynamic is teaming up with haute couture fashion house Louis Vuitton to bring us the newest version of the Horizon Earphones and, well, it's all about the LEWK, isn't it?
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Singles such as "Con Altura," and "Aute Cuture," an intentional misspelling of "haute couture," make a conceptual leap that conveys a desire for transcendence, and blur the lines between pop culture and high art.
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For Virginie Viard's sophomore haute couture collection as the artistic director of Chanel, she recreated the vegetable garden of the Abbey of Aubazine, the orphanage where Coco Chanel grew up, within the Grand Palais.
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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.
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The 42-year-old, known for favoring 1950s-style silhouettes, last year became a permanent member of France's select Haute Couture club, whose 15 houses include storied names such as Christian Dior and Chanel.
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This is puzzling because, in all other respects, this highest of high-end pancake houses, nestling among the haute-couture flagships of Tokyo's Ginza district and fitted out in bracingly minimalist decor, is perfection.
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The cofounder and sole owner of the Armani empire, Giorgio Armani's luxury fashion house has ventures in haute couture, sportswear, beauty, restaurants, interior design, hotels and resorts, and ready-to-wear fashion, among others.
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An image of a famous fall 1980 Saint Laurent haute couture jacket embroidered with a quote from the Jean Cocteau poem "Batterie" sits next to a photograph of Debbie Harry in a slogan tee.
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"I found a 1920s haute couture hat in Paris, which was basically a Vietnamese rattan hat covered in white and red polka dots, and decided to do the entire hotel like that," he says.
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Adele wore a fern green Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci dress with a criss-cross checker printed bust, crystal speckled sleeves that end in lace detailing, and a pleated skirt with geometric lace inserts.
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WATCH: Rihanna Teases New Lipstick Collection This Holiday Season While Rihanna is a fan of unique designer looks and haute couture pieces, she toasted her last moments in her 20s with a $130 from Melgaard.
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It was the combination of her start-up experience and passion for creating fine edibles that led Maggie to create Maggie Louise Confections, a company that brings haute couture design to the world of chocolate.
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What Benjamin said contained the "aura" — the mark of individuality and specialness only an original, handmade work can imbue — Bolton likened to haute couture, whilst assembly-line fashion (as reproductions of art) lacks that aura.
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The Chambre Syndicale allowed Rousteing to show on the Haute Couture Spring 2019 schedule as a guest — the term 'couture' is regulated by French law and not just anyone can decide they are a couturier.
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Gracing the carpet as a best actress nominee for her role in A Star Is Born, Gaga brought the Old Hollywood glamour in a white, feathered Dior Haute Couture gown from the Spring 2019 collection.
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PARIS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri unveiled a fairytale-like debut haute couture collection for French fashion house Christian Dior on Monday, presenting flowing flowery dresses, capes and plenty of intricate craftsmanship.
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Dior's first woman artistic director, who previously spent some 17 years at Valentino, took inspiration from mazes for the line on the second day of fashion shows at Paris' Haute Couture spring/summer 2017 week.
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According to WWD, despite being absent from taking a bow at the end of his Chanel Haute Couture show in January, Lagerfeld was still working on all of his brands right up until his death.
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The actress is currently in Paris for haute couture fashion week, and before taking her front-row seat at Dior, Dunst toasted legendary jewelry brand Chopard's new collection wearing another storied French designer, Christian Lacroix.
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While Beyoncé went super-tight on the carpet in a slaytex gown covered with beading by Givenchy Haute Couture, but went way more casual after in a black tank and a metallic wide-leg pant.
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Dior's first woman artistic director, who previously spent some 17 years at Valentino, took inspiration from labyrinths for the line on the second day of fashion shows at Paris' Haute Couture spring/summer 2017 week.
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If we can glean anything from this year's Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, it's that Hollywood celebs have mastered the romantic French-girl aesthetic— or, at least their L.A.-based glam squads have it down.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Harlequins and Pierrot clowns entertained at Christian Dior's Haute Couture catwalk show in Paris on Monday, as models sporting ruffs, sequined dresses and ringmaster jackets paraded through a circus tent, surrounded by acrobats.
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And, in One Look: The Flower, it's a type of insider, zoomed-in look at the magic of haute couture that you can't get elsewhere — unless you were a fly on the wall, of course.
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When she walked down the aisle to marry Prince Harry in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on May 19, Meghan accessorized her boatneck Givenchy Haute Couture gown with two other diamond pieces by Cartier.
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As the face of their cosmetics line, Bella Hadid also arrived wearing Dior Haute Couture, ditching her usual semi-naked gowns with slits up to her hip bone in favor of something much more demure.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads WASHINGTON, DC — In 1997, Oscar de la Renta designed a spring/summer haute couture collection for Pierre Balmain's fashion house that included flowing robes with bold, colorful geometric patterns.
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According to a rep for the brand, Swift wore an Alexandre Vauthier Haute Couture archive piece that was never produced, while Pejic went with a commercial version that was available for purchase back in 2013.
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Only a handful of brands belong to the select Haute Couture club, and have to be approved by French fashion's governing body based on criteria including staffing, skills and the service offered to private clients.
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While Hadid has been gliding down the Cannes red carpet in a bevy of Dior Haute Couture gowns and vampy Alexandre Vauthier dresses, she was at a Bulgari event just the night before — in Rome.
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The first dress we want to see her wear is something plunging, leggy and incredibly sexy, like this Versace gown from the Haute Couture spring collection — a bridal-ready version of her 2016 Grammys dress.
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On Monday, Dior presented its first haute couture show since designer Raf Simons left in October, with a collection put together by the brand's inhouse team and described as being for the rushing modern woman.
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That's why, in the wake of yet another exhibition, there's a coffee table book coming out that deserves a slot in your library of Dior encyclopedias: The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture.
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Presented in plain, ingeniously transformed galleries, it forms a gorgeous tutorial about the narrowing of the gap between traditional haute couture and ready-to-wear, and the integration of handwork and new tech-savvy processes.
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Jenner, 21, wore a baby pink halter Balmain Haute Couture jumpsuit with full-glove sleeves and a satin-lace belt, ivory pumps and Lorraine Schwartz jewels while she styled her hair in a loose chignon.
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Keeping a sharp eye on color palette and character personality, illustrator and designer Michael Anthony has an eye for the contemporary and haute couture in his reimaginings of nearly all of Disney canon of princesses.
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This year, the ball will feature a display of over 100 pieces of haute couture and ready-to-wear pieces playing into the Costume Institute's exhibition, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.
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The image pictures Tisci holding the lace tails of Miku's stunning custom-made haute couture gown and looks admirably at her and she, standing upon a small pedestal with her signature turquoise twintails, gazes back.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Known for his ultra-feminine, silhouette-driven gowns, couturier Giambattista Valli shook up Haute Couture fashion week in Paris on Monday with a botanic-inspired collection displayed not on models, but on mannequins.
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"I wanted the people finally to look at... the artwork of making Haute Couture — and not from far and not in movement," Valli said, emphasizing the private moment afforded by personal inspection of each piece.
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JON PARELES The new single by Rosalía sets aside flamenco tragedy for pure braggadocio, flaunting "Aute Cuture" (that's haute couture cheerfully misspelled) and female ascendance over syncopated synthesizer chords and, tucked neatly within, flamenco handclaps.
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Exactly. Quick crib sheet: Haute couture is a twice-yearly five-day show fiesta in Paris where a select handful of brands produce handmade-to-order garments that cost approximately $10,000 to $100,000 a piece.
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"Brune Poirson has a very important mission for the government and for France," said Pascal Morand, executive president of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, the industry organization for French fashion.
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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.
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The Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen, who began showing on the haute couture calendar in January 2011, creates extraordinary dresses devised from 3D printing which resemble the creations of H.R. Giger for the "Aliens" films.
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Or at Givenchy, where, for her third haute couture collection, Clare Waight Keller offered everything from a shivering monochromatic metallic cape to a rainbow-colored multitiered skirt with a matching ruff of the swaying stuff.
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His fall 2019 collection was a dazzling homage to traditional haute couture, featuring ornate floral embroidery crafted in India and extreme silhouettes — cinched waists, bustled hips, high necks — achieved with the help of inbuilt corsetry.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Models stormed the runway in animal prints, neon dresses and designs that played with optical illusions at Jean Paul Gaultier's Haute Couture collection on Wednesday, set to a banging 1990s euro dance soundtrack.
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At first glance, her ivory Dior Haute Couture gown seemed almost understated, but then you noticed the softly feathered stitching and hip-high slit that landed her at the tippy top of every best-dressed list.
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Some of the works on view could have been runway looks, had the powers-that-be at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture decided on a whim that studded denim was suddenly an acceptable medium.
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Dogs came to show off, patiently crossing the main stage in costumes for three runway shows: Sci-fi Couture - 2020 A Space Odyssey; Haute Couture - High Fashion for Animal Rescue and Best in Show Designer Contest.
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She traded her black velvet-and-sequin Givenchy Haute Couture gown for a similarly-shaped burgundy gown, also made custom for her by the brand, and added giant Harry Winston earrings to go with her updo.
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That she defied the norms helped her stand out in the Big Bang era of haute couture in Paris; that people bought it proved a wave of freethinking rabble-rousers were ready for a fashion revolution.
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And we applauded Karl Lagerfeld for casting Sudanese-Australian model Adut Akech as the second Black model, ever, to close out a Chanel haute couture show (as a legendary Chanel bride), following Alek Wek in 2004.
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But clearly, there are still a few more translucent fashions left in the haute couture coffers, as Bella stepped out yet again the next night in a completely transparent gown that left little to the imagination.
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Paris Haute Couture is a spectacle not unlike Halloween — over-the-top costumes, too many parties to go to in too short of a time frame, lots of gift bags that are all treat, no trick.
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But her moment on the haute couture stage goes beyond that of her connection to the Middle Eastern clientele that makes up a chunk of its targeted customer base (and her personal friendship with the designer).
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It's why fashion journalists look at it with the same eyes, and it's why something else stood out this past week that shouldn't go unnoticed: This season was the most diverse haute couture week in decades.
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Lady Gaga made a grand entrance at the 2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards thanks to her show-stopping Dior Haute Couture gown, which she showed off to great effect as she posed on the red carpet.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Black and gold trouser suits and dreamy gowns laced with velvet or overflowing with feathers led the parade of evening wear glamor at Italian designer Giorgio Armani's Haute Couture show in Paris on Tuesday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Italy's Giorgio Armani played off bright reds against dazzling blue tones in his Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris on Tuesday, in an Art Deco-inspired feast of feathers, sequins, patent leather and crystals.
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Reinterpretations of "Le Smoking" - or tuxedos for women popularized by late French couturier Yves Saint Laurent in the 1960s - dominated the Haute Couture collection, with black and white combinations of jackets and ruffled dresses for instance.
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Narrator: With a college degree in fine arts, Carol was also inspired by the early fashion houses of Europe, and her ability to drape high-end fabrics made her especially skilled at Barbie's haute couture looks.
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The French fashion house Balenciaga has unveiled Bernie-themed haute couture such as a bomber jacket with an oversized Sanders logo on the back and a Bernie T-shirt pulled over a designer flannel and hoodie.
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Some are looking past the décor, lights and models, and discovering that the watch industry does, in fact, have something in common with the world of haute couture and its made-to-measure, exquisitely handcrafted garments.
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Over 219 works of painting, drawing, enamelwork, laquerware, carpet, jewelry, costumes, and decorative and ceremonial objects are on display, thematically installed in four rooms that are ravishingly designed by French haute couture fashion designer, Christian Lacroix.
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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.
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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.
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LVMH, the world's biggest luxury group by revenue, already owns Parfums Christian Dior, and the deal would give it ownership of the Christian Dior haute couture, leather, men's and women's ready-to-wear, and shoe businesses.
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Now 21991, Bergé became romantically involved with Saint Laurent shortly after their first meeting in 21971; the two lived together until 280 and Bergé served as C.E.O. of Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture until its closure.
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Givenchy, owned by luxury group LVMH, first announced the news in a post on its Instagram account and said Waight Keller will oversee all product lines, including women's and men's ready-to-wear, accessories and haute couture.
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Tuesday's collection - part of Paris' Haute Couture week, a presentation of one-of-a-kind outfits considered the height of fashion prowess - featured elaborate takes on the Chanel classic, including a mauve trouser suit with wide legs.
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Even before haute couture week kicked off in Europe, the state of this segment of the industry was put into question when Versace surprised everyone by canceling its show, choosing instead to focus on client-facing events.
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But while this trend may be a new tactic for some brands, Chanel has long endorsed these celebrity scions, which was clear at its latest haute couture show when Lily-Rose Depp walked in the finale gown.
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We might not find ourselves decked out in haute couture gowns and/or custom tuxes very often (or ever), but as self-professed celebrity know-it-alls, we can still study their every move — style moves included.
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And she gave the kids a glimpse of that Disney magic, wearing a yellow Dior Haute Couture gown with a sweeping full skirt and draped neck that recalled the one (you know the one) in the film.
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"Coded_Couture has an exciting range of new tools and approaches that allow haute couture to be customizable and personalized far beyond what we've seen before in the fashion world," co-curator Ginger Duggan tells The Creators Project.
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Large sums of money were put on offer and mind-bogglingly difficult challenges—like making a dress out of found material, or maintaining haute-couture elegance amid a swarm of bees—stood in the way of it.
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Unlike other Fashion Weeks held six months before the product they show is available online or in-store, Haute Couture is the only showcase in which clothes are created for the season in which they are shown.
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For those who rely on the 'haute' in haute couture as a source of fantasy, a repose from the cycle of ready-to-wear, or a welcomed interpretation as fashion as art, it was bleak at best.
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And, even if it comes in the form of a handbag or a dress, fashion — especially something as unstable as haute couture — can feel like a living, breathing thing that you're allowed to have emotional reactions to.
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In town for the haute couture shows this week, fashion editors would recognize the silhouette almost immediately — even in bush form: Christian Dior's iconic Bar jacket, an essential component of his revolutionary 1947 collection The New Look.
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A few weeks later, Jeddah-born model Taleedah Tamer walked the Antonio Grimaldi show at haute couture week in Paris, causing many outlets in the Western and Eastern hemispheres to laud her as the first Saudi supermodel.
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Haute Couture fashion week, which runs until July 4, is a showcase of one-of-the-kind outfits by designers that have to abide by strict rules over their confection, as opposed to more mass-produced clothing.
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Cosmopolitan reports that Jenner arrived at the screening of 120 Beats Per Minute (120 Battements Par Minute) in a one-shoulder Giambattista Valli Haute Couture dress that wafted behind her as she strolled down the glam carpet.
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He realized that his haute couture designs should also be translated into more wearable pieces, which was why he co-founded a ready-to-wear fashion company in 2012, roping in Warren Liu as his co-founder.
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At its center is a 19th-century orange silk dress with white feathers created by Charles Frederick Worth, the English-born, Paris-based designer considered by many to be the father of the modern haute couture business.
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Models struggle against strong wind before the rehearsal of Christian Dior's Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2017 live show to celebrate Dior's new flagship store at the rooftop of Ginza Six mall in Tokyo, Japan, April 19, 2017.
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And you could almost read into his decision to add dresses to a men's wear show parallels to a specific club demographic: of the 65 looks, 13 (roughly 20 percent) were clothes from the women's haute couture.
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We spotted her turquoise feathered Cropover look from Barbados' annual festival, her 2015 Met Gala look designed by Chinese couturier Guo Pei, and her Dior Haute Couture gown (and matching sunglasses) from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
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Wearing costumes by some of her friends — along with Mr. Alaïa and Ms. McCartney, there is an impressive array of haute couture by Jean-Paul Gaultier and Sophie Theallet — the dancers undergo transformations, both physical and emotional.
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John Galliano is known for casting models with outlandish runway walks, from slow stumbles at his '99 haute couture show for Christian Dior to exaggerated poses at the Maison Margiela's fall/winter '19 Artisanal Co-ed show.
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Spanier's courage and tenacity when hiding from the Nazis in occupied France, and then the rigors of haute couture when she became directrice at Balmain, were somehow a perfect antidote to my own fears of the birth.
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But even though Ralph Toledano, president of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, called him "immortal," soon we may all find that in fact, Mr. Lagerfeld really was the last of his kind.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Christian Dior paid tribute to the skills of its ateliers at its Haute Couture runway show on Monday, as models in pale, minimalistic gowns glided through an all-white showroom-turned-catwalk lined with mannequins.
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In the center of the gallery, two rows of hand-crafted haute couture ensembles donned by the models themselves are on display, revealing hidden sex scenes beaded into costumes and glimmering weaponry, among other painstakingly intricate oddities.
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While the former Victoria's Secret model has no problem strutting down the catwalk in lingerie, she gave Vogue the first look at her demure wedding gown, a long-sleeved satin creation with appliquéd lilies by Dior Haute Couture.
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It appears that Hyland took a style cue from fellow A-lister Emma Watson, who wore a gorgeous red Dior Haute Couture double-slit floor-length top, worn over black cropped trousers, for the Golden Globes in 2014.
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An evening with royalty For the evening State Banquet at Buckingham Palace, Trump stuck with white, and she also kept to a non-UK designer, this time a sleeveless Dior Haute Couture gown with detail on the bodice.
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Even high fashion has muscled in on the act, Valentino's SS15 Haute Couture show featuring delicate dresses smattered with lines of love verse arranged on frothy layers of tulle, with references including Dante's Divine Comedy and Virgil's Eclogues.
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Performers in the former category tend to embrace womanly (or "fishy") looks, haute couture, and Broadway-inspired dance numbers; within the latter, you'll find more androgynous (or "genderfuck") styling, DIY outfits, and productions that draw from performance art.
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But she caught herself this time and was totally rocking her last X-Men-related red carpet in a sexy, cleavage-baring Dior Haute Couture gown that is so head-turning it needs to seen from all angles.
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The "sophisticated, sensual and beautiful" look, as Steimberg describes it, was originally inspired by the star's textured ice blue Givenchy Haute Couture midi dress, but came to fruition after a collaborative effort by both the pro and Saldana.
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It's this return to its Parisian roots that Chanel, founded in 1910, sends a friendly reminder to those who indulge themselves in haute couture that an outfit can carry a past just as precious as whoever wears it.
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Where most French houses rely on agencies to supply them, per se, with a diverse lineup of models for their shows, agencies will tell you there isn't enough money in haute couture worth sending models to Paris for.
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The actress, who has become a red carpet darling over the past year and is a new front row fixture at Paris Haute Couture fashion week, continued her stylish streak in a custom Rodarte gown covered in sequins.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Chanel took fashionistas behind the scenes into its ateliers for its autumn/winter haute couture show on Tuesday, focusing on the intricate craftsmanship displayed on its luxurious outfits and shining the spotlight on its artisan workers.
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Black-and-white stripped dresses - ingeniously cut to float down the catwalk from the front while revealing a cinched silhouette from behind - mingled with bold pink or yellow pant suits in the collection, unveiled during Haute Couture week.
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For this edition of our partnership with Visionaire, we went to Beirut to go behind the scenes into Elie Saab's headquarters, where more than 200 sewers, artisans, and workers put together the most recent haute couture 2016 show.
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Paris already lures more international designers to its fashion weeks than others, with half the brands on show from overseas compared to 13 percent in runner-up Milan, according to Pascal Morand, head of France's haute couture federation.
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The day of the announcement, Ms. Chiuri was in Rome (Thursday night she and Mr. Piccioli attended the Fendi haute couture show) to say goodbye to her former colleagues at Valentino and get ready for her new life.
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On a fern-lined catwalk dotted with wooden lions and giraffes, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri presented the brand's Autumn-Winter 2017/18 haute couture collection, revisiting the iconic "Bar" Jacket and gray skirt suits with a 1950s feel.
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First, there was the question of whom they were actually winning over with political oratory delivered amid a bacchanalia of self-celebration and haute couture, some of it costing as much as the average American's home down payment.
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He will show his Balenciaga men's collection on Wednesday, but as for Vetements, fans will have to wait until next Tuesday, when he will show it once again alongside the women's during the week of haute couture shows.
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Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion, a multi-floor exhibition at the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), features 45 haute couture outfits from 15 of van Herpen's collections, and truly makes a case for fashion as a fine art.
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Witherspoon, 163, and Phillippe, 18, once again looked like twins when they were photographed wearing identical matching mother/daughter black outfits while catching a mix of Paris' haute couture and boutique shopping (with stops at Chanel, A.P.C. and Gucci).
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Reese Witherspoon in Elie Saab alongside her daughter Ava Phillippe Zoe Kravitz in Saint Laurent Shailene Woodley in Dior Haute Couture Nicole Kidman in Michael Kors Collection Laura Dern in Saint Laurent Meryl Streep in Oscar de la Renta
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The "Killing Eve" star brought haute couture to the Academy Awards with her Elie Saab ensemble, which featured huge sleeves (a major 2020 red-carpet trend) and ruffles that looked like roses at the bottom of her shimmering dress.
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A French governing body, the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, founded in 1868, after other dressmakers followed suit, has since stipulated the parameters of couture fashion, occasionally inviting new designers to show as part of the prestigious week.
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Emily Kirkpatrick, Associate Style News Editor: While this look may seem like your standard boring black dress at first glance, upon closer inspection the high fashion detailing of the Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci gown becomes readily apparent.
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"Just because you make movies or sing songs doesn't mean that people are going to care about your diapers, your haute couture dresses or whatever it is," Christopher Durham, vice president of retail brands at Theory House, told CNBC.
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Glittering bonnets by milliner Stephen Jones and sparkling shoes added to the whimsical collection, on the first day of Haute Couture Fashion Week, a celebration of an elite club of high-end designers with one-of-a-kind outfits.
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After interning in haute couture at Christian Lacroix, and a stint at her father's tailor, Edward Sexton, on Savile Row, the fashion design student presented her graduate collection on model pals Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Yasmin Le Bon.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — I do not share the unbridled passion for haute couture fashion that some do, but I have gotten excited by certain arty creators like Rei Kawakubo, Alexander McQueen, and early Viktor & Rolf.
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An exact date for the show hasn't been announced yet, but a spokesperson tells WWD that the brand is in talks with the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode to lock in a time and place.
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The Sudanese-Australian model first came onto our radars when Karl Lagerfeld cast her as a Chanel bride — the second Black model to do so — to close out the French fashion house's fall 2018 haute couture show in Paris.
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LONDON (Reuters) - French designer Jean Paul Gaultier brought his lively and eccentric "Fashion Freak Show" to the London stage this week, a musical production looking back on his life from childhood classroom sketches to the Paris haute couture catwalks.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Tunisian-born fashion designer Azzedine Alaia, who dressed stars from Greta Garbo to Grace Jones and Lady Gaga, died in Paris at the age of 77, the French Federation of Haute Couture and Fashion said on Saturday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Models strutted past Parisian landmarks, including the green book stalls that line the river Seine, at Chanel's fashion show on Tuesday, as the luxury label mocked up an entire cityscape to present its latest Haute Couture collection.
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Moore, 55, skipped the bold color gowns she's known for in favor of a black lace corset Chanel gown featuring a structured top, embroidered straps and a silk tulle underskirt inspired by the spring/summer 2016 Haute Couture Collection.
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Short legs aside (we happen to think they're pretty perfect), Wilde knows how to dress her amazing figure, often opting for plunging gowns (like her Valentino Haute Couture gown at this years Oscars) and boho-style off-duty looks.
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The latest front-runner in the question of what Markle will wear on Saturday is a dress from Ralph & Russo, London haute couture designers which have previously prepared outfits for stars such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Beyonce.
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It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare died, but the British literary great continues to inspire as Italian fashion house Valentino paid tribute to the playwright for its Autumn Winter 2016 haute couture collection in Paris on Wednesday.
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Stepping out yesterday to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the former first lady sported a custom Schiaparelli haute couture gown in an acidic yellow color, with crystal beading on top adding an additional element of glamour.
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The new, 43,000-square-foot building, designed by the Paris-based firm Studio KO, will house thousands of articles of clothing and haute couture accessories, all carefully selected by Pierre Bergé, Saint Laurent's partner in business and in life.
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Fashion is not often presented as an antidote to uncontrolled social media use, but as an argument for the truth of Mr. Piccioli's words, there were no better examples than the final three shows of the haute couture season.
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What guests will notice the most about the hotel&aposs tree, created by haute couture designer Debbie Wingham, is that it&aposs heavily decorated in diamonds, but not just regular white diamonds, but also red, pink, and black ones.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Chanel hosted guests in a mocked-up Mediterranean garden for its Haute Couture show on Tuesday though Karl Lagerfeld, the octogenarian designer responsible for the collection and extravagant set, failed to show up for his customary bow.
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Gaultier, whose brand is owned by Spanish perfumer Puig, chose to stop his pret-a-porter line, usually a more profitable segment of the fashion market, to focus only on Haute Couture Week as well as his perfume ranges.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Buttoned up looks fit for a studious afternoon in the library filled Chanel's Haute Couture runway show on Tuesday, as models paraded around an enormous bookcase in designer Virginie Viard's second, closely-watched solo outing for the French brand.
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There to support her rumored fiancé, baby daddy and triple-Grammy-nominated beau, Travis Scott, Jenner wore a bubblegum pink jumpsuit taken straight from Paris, where it made its runway debut less than a month ago during Haute Couture Fashion Week.
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To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the fur brand, creative director Karl Lagerfeld one-upped the brand's first Haute Couture show in Paris, holding an elaborate presentation with a glass runway built over famed tourist attraction, the iconic Trevi Fountain.
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While we continue to daydream about the magic that is high-fashion and its haute couture-like processes, watch the video below to see how the world's most elaborate romper came to life — and really, what makes fashion so cool.
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During spring/summer 2016 haute couture week in Paris, T teamed up with the photographer Iringó Demeter to create a series of six videos that premiered exclusively via Instagram, capturing all the precise, meticulous detail of couture — in slow motion.
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PARIS, July 7 (Reuters) - Fashion house Maison Margiela put on a colourful and eclectic show at Paris haute couture week on Wednesday, with creative director John Galliano sending models down the catwalk in a Napoleonic-style hat and upside-down jacket.
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Since then, she's come back to the trend in various manifestations — as a matching set during Haute Couture Fashion Week, in leggings for an outing in New York, and as part of an all-white #OOTD for a fashion show.
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Andrea Lavinthal, Style and Beauty Director: Yes, this plunging Valentino Haute Couture gown is practically begging for a "Kirsten's golden globes" joke, but once you get past the startling amounts of cleavage, you can focus on the flawless design elements.
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For Karl Lagerfeld's fall 2018 haute couture collection, he drew upon early memories, a post-war Paris that was struggling to dust itself off and move forward, and the bouquinistes that helped bring the joie de vivre back to the city.
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The La La Land star embodied a silver screen siren, appropriately paying tribute to her musical all about the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, in a custom Givenchy Haute Couture gown that took a jaw-dropping 1,700 hours to create.
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JOOM already offers 203,000 products from France and sees the home of haute-couture fashion as a testing ground for scaling up sales of higher-value items made outside of China, with French consumers among its most active in Europe.
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Held in the French label's headquarters in Paris, where founder Christian Dior presented his designs until his death in 1957, the brand's latest Haute Couture collection was rich in nods to that era, with capes and A-line silhouettes galore.
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Meghan wore a custom made Givenchy Haute Couture outfit, designed by the French brand's British Creative Director Clare Waight Keller, the fashion powerhouse behind Meghan's now iconic royal wedding dress, for her first official day of royal engagements with the Queen.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Chanel brought a touch of early spring to Haute Couture week in Paris on Tuesday as models decked out in delicate, flower-strewn gowns paraded through rose-covered archways and around a fountain in a specially-built garden.
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The Cannes Film Festival red carpet has been a veritable who's who of A-list actors, supermodels, and all-around It-Girls and of course the trunks full of haute couture gowns and multi-million dollar diamonds that come with them.
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The Asian Art Museum's Kimono Refashioned demonstrates the kimono's enduring impact on fashion since the 19th century through luxurious Japanese kimonos, opulent Western gowns, and haute couture from the likes of Junya Watanabe, Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, and other renowned designers.
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She wore a range of designers, from the star-covered Valentino at the Golden Globes to the Givenchy Haute Couture gown that she won her Oscar in for La La Land (which had taken 1,700 hours to produce by hand).
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But on Sunday, when Ms. Dotto performs in a preview performance at the nearby Teatro dell'Opera Di Roma, she will be wearing the real thing: an exquisite haute couture gown designed by Mr. Garavani that took 800 hours to make.
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Mr. Garavani designed the four dresses worn by Violetta while Ms. Chiuri and Mr. Piccioli designed the costumes for the rest of the cast, including two haute couture gowns for the other female principal, Anna Malavasi, in the role of Flora.
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LONDON, July 24 (Reuters) - French designer Jean Paul Gaultier brought his lively and eccentric "Fashion Freak Show" to the London stage this week, a musical production looking back on his life from childhood classroom sketches to the Paris haute couture catwalks.
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There are 212 haute couture Saint Laurent creations, many of them runway prototypes, as well as shoes and hats and handbags and 215 ready-to-wear garments of a type that would all be instantly recognizable to cognoscenti as Catroux signatures.
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There are 212 haute couture Saint Laurent creations, many of them runway prototypes, as well as shoes and hats and handbags and 215 ready-to-wear garments of a type that would all be instantly recognizable to cognoscenti as Catroux signatures.
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The British designers Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood, and the American editor André Leon Talley are the subjects of new documentaries that offer peepholes into their extraordinary lives and talents, and on the no-less-extraordinary world of haute couture.
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Written in the 11th century by Murasaki Shikibu, a minor figure in the Heian imperial court, "The Tale of Genji," a divine parade of assignations, poetic melancholy and intricately cataloged haute couture, has dominated Japan's imagination for a thousand years.
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CreditCreditThibault Montamat On a scorching summer afternoon in Paris, two days before his debut Schiaparelli haute couture show, Daniel Roseberry is making some final adjustments to the back of an acid yellow crystal-encrusted evening dress with long, billowing sleeves.
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The four main haute couture ateliers in its Rue Cambon headquarters are separated into those that make suits and those called flou, which create evening wear, including this elaborately beaded and sequined custom-made confection from the fall 2018 collection.
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Aside from being the first Chinese designer to debut at Paris Haute Couture, Guo's Magnificent Gold gown took center stage at "China: Through the Looking Glass," and the designer was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential people in 2016.
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The oldest came from the 21th-century embroiderer Maison Michonet, which was active at the time of Charles Frederick Worth, who was the official dressmaker to Empress Eugénie of France and considered by many to be the father of haute couture.
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Under Mr. Bergé's guidance, haute couture became more of a bottom-line business, using success in runway shows to propel the sales not only of ready-to-wear clothes but also of perfumes, handbags and other accessories with designer labels.
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By the 1970s, Mr. Saint Laurent was heralded as the most influential designer of his generation, epitomizing the modern woman with swagger and extending fashion's range of expression by bringing pea jackets, motorcycle jackets and Cossack coats to haute couture.
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His clients, more than 90 percent of whom come from the Middle East, seek one-of-kind designs — validating, in Fournie's eyes, the role of Haute Couture in an age of fast-fashion high street labels and global luxury brands.
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They had left their former show homes — in the ready-to-wear season — in search of inspiration and aesthetic meaning (and commercial growth), hoping to find it in the hallowed frame of the first day of the Paris haute couture shows.
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At the EE British Academy Film Awards, familiarly known as the Baftas, this month, Ms. Stone managed to make a tea-length embroidered smoke gray organza dress over above-the-ankle pants (Chanel haute couture, mind you) seem like kismet.
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Next, Thom Browne said that, upon advice given by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, the governing body of the French fashion industry that oversees fashion week schedules, it would move its Saturday show from 2 p.m.
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From running around Paris in Schiaparelli haute couture (the city where she lived as a Wilhemina model as a teen—sickening, I know!) to just laying in bed with casually stunning hair, TER is giving you quality social media content.
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This dazing effect can be relished over and over here in a wide variety of objects including two haute couture dresses by Paco Rabanne, a chrysochroa rajah bug from Thailand, and the ceramic "Moustache" (2014) vase by Jean-Baptiste Fastrez.
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We hardly expect her to ditch her entire collection of body-con dresses, cropped tank tops and Fashion Nova jeans for haute couture, but after seeing tonight's look, we can't help but get our hopes up about what's next for the beauty mogul.
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Both Mara sisters went for deep cleavage-baring designs, with Kate in a beige halter gown with sexy side cutouts (and Forevermark diamonds) and Rooney in a V-neck pleated Haute Couture gown paired with a cropped cape and Fred Leighton jewels.
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Dion debuted her 200-piece collection in Las Vegas on Tuesday, wearing another very apropos, tongue-in-cheek "Queen of Hearts" look from Schiaparelli Haute Couture (because her heart will go on, obviously) – plus a piece from her soon-to-launch handbag line.
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The Paris-bred Chinese model (her parents are from the city of Wenzhou) was cast in a handful of haute couture shows recently, including holy-grail houses like Chanel (she also just finished high school via online courses in the same week, NBD).
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In Paris, the designer presented a co-ed spring 2018 haute couture offering that, as the industry continues to struggle with just how to make the expensive breed of fashion buyable, is the most realistic couture collection to hit the runway in years.
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PARIS, July 2 (Reuters) - Buttoned up looks fit for a studious afternoon in the library filled Chanel's Haute Couture runway show on Tuesday, as models paraded around an enormous bookcase in designer Virginie Viard's second, closely-watched solo outing for the French brand.
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Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas have extended their stay in France following their Saturday attendance at Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner's wedding, taking some time to attend the Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2019-2020 fashion show in Paris on Monday.
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For the first time this week, the models walking the runway in Paris' Haute Couture Fashion Week must comply with the new French law that requires them to show medical documents proving that they have a body mass index (BMI) of over 18.
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And, if you're looking for something more badass than a designer who can take his imagination from neon, safety-pin wearing street punks to something as ornate as French haute couture, well, we're going to go ahead and say that probably doesn't exist.
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The haute couture on display during the Vakko ESMOD International fashion show at the Emaar Square Mall in Istanbul, Turkey, this week didn't seem to impress a white and grey cat, who invaded the catwalk to put on a show of its own.
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Julianne Hough's wedding weekend was full of adorable outfits, Miranda Kerr wore a Dior Haute Couture gown that was inspired by Grace Kelly, and just this weekend, Rupert Murdoch's daughter, Elisabeth Murdoch, tied the knot in a romantic, floral-embroidered princess-style gown.
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The 251-year-old woman, whose family fled to Kenya almost two decades ago, has no formal training in design and tailoring, no experience in sales and marketing - and certainly no contacts in the haute couture realms of Gucci and Jean Paul Gaultier.
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Deacon has transitioned out of the ready-to-wear fashion cycle in order to focus exclusively on bridal and haute couture and, no doubt, landing designing duties for the Lady Glen Affric (Middleton's new title, post-wedding) will raise his profile significantly.
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Instead, I dream of a future where we finally realize aesthetics and competency are independent factors in who we are, where personal fashion choices — glam, punk, haute couture, rockabilly, bohemian, preppy, princess, or anything else — are independent of perceptions of scientific competency.
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By the time of the Oscars Ms. Fonda was divorcing Mr. Vadim, and though she had hung on to her haute couture, she had exchanged her New Wave lifestyle for a self-financed two-year antiwar lecture tour across the United States.
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Most recently, Mr. Bergé was working on two museums dedicated to Yves Saint Laurent that will open next month: in Paris in the former premises of the haute couture house, and in Marrakesh in a new building next to the Jardin Majorelle.
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In this case, the jewelry was for sale: "We do not invite our clients to attend Giambattista Valli's show; however, Valli's haute couture clients share a similar sensibility in appreciating our creations," said Maria Cristina Buccellati, global communications and marketing director at Buccellati.
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Images of Simmons at that time show a lanky, nubile ingenue who is all legs — a reported 221 inches of them — and whose looks were bound to test the limits of race and beauty standards in the very white world of haute couture.
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And, of course, there was the haute couture Dior gown she donned to win the Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook, a dress that she tripped over while walking onto the stage in a 'she's just like us' moment that'll go down in history.
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Photograph by Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker Partly as a result of the Met show, the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture had admitted Guo as a guest member, which entitled her to a slot on the calendar for Paris Couture Week.
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Making It Valentino's spring/summer 2017 haute couture show was its first with Pierpaolo Piccioli alone at the helm — after Maria Grazia Chiuri departed for the artistic director job at Christian Dior (she presented her own first couture collection there this week).
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The Best Actress-winner accepted her award wearing a gold, flapper-esque Givenchy Haute Couture gown and a very subtle Planned Parenthood pin before changing into a very on-trend white silk slip dress and a pearl-studded blazer pinned with a blue ACLU ribbon.
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The resulting piece looks like a haute couture Speedmaster and should cost around $15,000, an acceptable sum for a manufacture watch with Droz's provenance given that other Droz watches can run into the $17428413,000s, a price that might be less appetizing to the illiquid entrepreneur.
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Kylie Jenner might have a one-year-old at home and a billion dollar cosmetics line to run, but that didn't stop her from showing up to her first ever Grammy Awards red carpet looking 10/10 in head-to-toe Balmain Haute Couture.
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She recently took home album of the year at the 2019 Grammy Awards, in February, and arrived to that big night wearing a tulle, pleated Valentino Haute Couture gown that also paid tribute to her album cover in a similar way as the ACMs look.
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Instead, the American Crime Story actress, 44, is the newest face of Chanel, according to WWD — and she's beginning her gig as the brand's ambassador by appearing at the fashion house's Haute Couture Fall Winter 2018/19 show at Le Grand Palais in Paris.
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The Vox Lux actress, 37, made a daring statement on the red carpet at the L.A. premiere of her new film wearing a revealing Dior Haute Couture black tuxedo suit jacket plunging nearly all the way down to her belly button — without a blouse.
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The much-hyped Vetements show gave a new energy to the week, but was followed by decidedly more haute couture collections from Versace, Schiaparelli, Iris Van Herpen, Dior, Giambattista Valli, and the dozens of other fashion houses that officially make up the five-day event.
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Over the past 15 years, Lebanese designers, such as Elie Saab and Zuhair Murad, and Algerian designer Yacine Aouadi, have also been invited by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture to participate in Couture Fashion Week, which has introduced a new Arab customer base.
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Lindsey Vonn Thinks the Oscars are Scarier Than the Olympics: 'I'm Out of My Comfort Zone' Kaitlyn Frey, Style & Beauty Assistant: There's so much to love about the Best Actress nominee's romantic white Chanel Haute Couture gown (which she had to sew herself into backstage!).
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But she saved her most skin-baring look for last, stepping out Tuesday night in a plunging black Ronald van der Kemp Haute Couture coat dress featuring a dramatic cut-up-to-there slit, paired with a Louis Vuitton handbag and transparent Soebedar pumps.
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Sharon Kanter, Deputy Style Director: I waited in anticipation to see what Lady Gaga would wear to the Globes, and she definitely out-glammed everyone in a periwinkle Valentino Haute Couture gown that she topped off with $5 million worth of Tiffany & Co. jewels.
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As for the show itself, guests were sent invitations featuring one of Lagerfeld's traditional hand drawn illustrations, in this case the image of a Chanel-branded dress form emblazoned with "Les Ateliers de la Haute Couture," foreshadowing the intimate backdrop for the collection's presentation.
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Stone's red carpet style game has been on point this entire awards season, from her ethereal Valentino Haute Couture gown adorned with stars at the Golden Globe Awards to the whimsical lily pad-embroidered Alexander McQueen dress she wore to the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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While promoting her new competition show, World of Dance, at the NBC Universal press day in Los Angeles on Monday, the multi-hyphenate talent completely stole the style spotlight in a plunging black gown with seductive slit from Elie Saab's Fall 2016 Haute Couture collection.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French designer Jean Paul Gaultier evoked a sea journey to Japan at his latest Haute Couture fashion show on Wednesday, in a riot of colours and pleats that drew celebrities including actress Catherine Deneuve and model Irina Shayk to the front now.
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"Here's a little naked fact to ponder while Celine Dion changes looks between shows: for the past five years she has worn haute couture near exclusively for her own performances (in Las Vegas and on her current "mini-tour" of Europe)," the caption read.
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"Here's a little naked fact to ponder while Céline Dion changes looks between shows: for the past five years she has worn haute couture near exclusively for her own performances (in Las Vegas and on her current "mini-tour" of Europe)," the caption begins.
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This meant that people like Andrew Bolton, the institute's new head curator, along with Jonathan Ive of Apple — who served as a sponsor — spoke in lofty tones about the dichotomies of man versus machine, haute couture versus ready-to-wear, hand-sewn versus mass produced.
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As The House of Dior exemplifies — and visually demonstrates via hundreds of photographs — its creative directors may enter and exit the house having left their individual marks on its ready-to-wear collections, but the heart of Dior will always beat for haute couture.
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In the longer run, the automation of garment-making may also usher in an era of "mass bespokeness", in which customers choose a style and have it made to fit their bodies in a way only haute couture or Savile Row can manage today.
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These are, after all, very expensive clothes for the very few, and for a brand to qualify for the haute couture appellation it must meet a series of stringent requirements established in the days of yore, presumably to maintain the purity of the line.
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And how different their work was from John Galliano and Alexander McQueen, arch romanticist and renegade rebel respectively, whose clothes spectacularly revived the two French fashion houses Dior and Givenchy, adding fresh blood and a frisson of anarchy to the staid sphere of haute couture.
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Using haute couture, ready-to-wear and streetwear as its vehicle, the exhibition, organized by Michelle Tolini Finamore at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, builds on a 2267 show by the curator that examined stubbornly entrenched gender associations we make with the color pink.
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The Australian Open is the scene-setting salvo of the year, heralding the looks to come; the French Open, the most elegant, thanks to its proximity to the haute couture heritage of Paris; Wimbledon, the most classic, with its insistence on dress code tradition.
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Exactly. Quick crib sheet: haute couture (or let's just call it "couture" for simplicity's sake) is a twice-yearly five-day show fiesta in Paris where a select handful of brands produce hand-made-to-order garments that cost approximately $10,000 to $100,000 a piece.
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The latest shifts from the industry comes from the bellwether fashion label Vetements, which has shown as part of haute couture for the last two seasons — and the official invitation of the Fédération, who bent their own rules to allow Vetements onto the schedule.
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Devised in tribute to the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, this jersey shift dress — one of a sequence of dresses in the collection devoted to the artist's geometric works — caused a sensation when shown as part of Yves Saint Laurent's fall/winter 21967 haute couture show.
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The growing list of start-ups Pipeline Angels has helped support includes such diverse projects as: DayOne Response, which makes a water-purifying bag used at disaster-relief sites; Voz, a fair-trade, haute couture fashion brand; and Repurpose, which creates products from plants instead of petroleum.
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Back in July, during haute couture fall 2018, Valentino's creative director – and winner of Designer of the Year at 2018's Fashion Awards – Pierpaolo Piccioli sent show-stopping gowns in acid yellows and dreamy blushes down the runway, topped off with blooming and bejeweled swimming caps.
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So far, it seems showgoers are pulling out all the stops when it comes to flexing for the 'gram — there's (still) plenty of Vetements and Balenciaga to go around — but stay tuned to see why, when it comes to street style, haute couture is where it's at.
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Emma Stone's red carpet style game has been on point this entire awards season, from her ethereal Valentino Haute Couture gown adorned with stars at the Golden Globe Awards to the whimsical lily pad-embroidered Alexander McQueen dress she wore to the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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In 2018, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened what would go on to become the most popular exhibit in its 149-year history: a show all about Catholicism's heavy influence on fashion, featuring haute couture confections as well as church vestments on loan from the Vatican.
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The Chopard jewels added two different dimensions to the look: Circular earrings play off the triangle shapes at the neckline and the nature vibe of her diamond cuff echoed the nature vibe of the Haute Couture show (the runway was grass and surrounded by zen lily ponds).
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To help make the months pass by faster than it takes the Millennium Falcon to complete the infamous Kessel Run, meet John Woo, the Hong Kong-based illustrator and creative force behind He Wears It, an illustration set depicting Star Wars characters dressed in haute couture.
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The actor, 26, hit the red carpet at the London premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald in a Givenchy Haute Couture silk organza and goose feather cape draped over an off-white suit and leather boots inspired by Harry Potter character Hedwig the Owl.
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Neil Warner/Splash News Online Haute Couture week is here again, and with it, a parade of the biggest celebs and models in the world have flocked to Paris to take possession of their coveted front row seats and witness some truly spectacular, mind-blowing fashions.
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Models always bring show-stopping moments at Cannes and Kendall didn't disappoint this year with an Alexandre Vauthier Haute Couture one-shoulder top and booty shorts, a Ronald van der Kemp mini number, a flowing Giambattista Valli Couture minidress and her Ralph & Russo Couture column gown.
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When you think of Empire, you probably think about a pack of clawing Lyons fighting over their record dynasty, the sexy cat-and-mouse chase between exes Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) and Luscious (Terrence Howard), or maybe even Cookie's lavi$h hood rich-meets-haute couture wardrobe.
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Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Barneys New York So the star and her stylist Petra Flannery, who has worked with Saldana for about 10 years, created a bright, bold color story for her Star Trek promo tour (which includes the light blue Givenchy Haute Couture dress, above).
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Dion's stylist, Law Roach, told Billboard just how much of an impact the Stephane Rolland Haute Couture gown was supposed to make: "I think when those lights come up, people are really going to have that clutch my pearl, that deep sigh moment," Roach told the publication.
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Daphne Guinness (the Honourable, to use her proper title) was teetering on her usual heelless skyscraper shoes through Rivington Guitars a few weeks ago, addressing herself to guitars, pedals and amps with the awed focus and connoisseur's eye she once brought to the salons of haute couture.
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He was never a great artist like Dior, Balenciaga or Saint Laurent, but Pierre Cardin — still at work at 19553 — pioneered today's approach to the business of fashion: take a loss on haute couture, then make the real money through ready-to-wear and worldwide licensing deals.
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Mr. Assayas places her in wide-ranging situations — the movie embraces a range of genres, from a paranormal thriller to a glossy action movie to a coming-of-age tale — and dresses her in a variety of costumes, from haute couture fetish to cool-girl schlub wear.
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For example, at Lanvin, Bouchra Jarrar married the clean lines and luxurious minimalism of her aesthetic (which is still nascent, given the slow development of her own brand over half a decade of haute couture-focused clothes) with the disco-tinged coquettishness left behind by Alber Elbaz.
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In a grand, lengthy gallery at the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) in Pittsburgh, a legion of exquisitely dressed mannequins stand at attention, displaying seven years' worth of innovative, otherworldly haute couture designs by Iris van Herpen, the Dutch fashion star known for her striking, futuristic aesthetic.
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When I arrived one June morning, a few weeks after her North American tour, Ho was examining herself with detached objectivity in a floor-to-ceiling mirror, wearing what appeared to be an haute-couture hemp sack—a prospective costume for the video of a new song.
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The socialite Nan Kempner (rumored to have been the model for Tom Wolfe's "social X-ray") wasn't aiming for a grandmotherly vibe when she wore Yves Saint Laurent's patchwork-print chiffon from the spring 1969 haute couture line — she was trying to keep pace with the youthquake.
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She later signed with an agency in Milan and debuted on Etro's spring 2018 runway last fall; that same season, she walked for Ermanno Scervino and Trussardi, and more recently she could be spotted at Chanel's cruise show and at both Valentino's and Dior's haute couture shows.
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In a gallery shaped like a Byzantine apse stands a Gothic haute couture gown by Jean Paul Gaultier — technically stunning but too gaudy to love — that incorporates holographic images of saints and aluminum panels decorated with eyes or hearts, like the ex-votos believers place in shrines.
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She was accepted as a guest designer in late 2016 — and last month presented her second collection alongside other guest labels, including Iris Van Herpen, Proenza Schouler and Rodarte, in addition to permanent members of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture such as Chanel and Dior.
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Telfar chose to show earlier in Paris during Men's Fashion Week, Tom Ford debuted his fall collection in Los Angeles, Jeremy Scott will show in July during next season's haute couture calendar, and Maryam Nassir Zadeh chose to forego showing her fall season in a show format.
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He was never a great artist like Dior, Balenciaga or Saint Laurent, but Pierre Cardin — still at work at 19543 — pioneered today's approach to the business of fashion: take a loss on haute couture, then make the real money through ready-to-wear and worldwide licensing deals.
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Though effortless in their appearance, each of her pieces is made with sustainably sourced gemstones and 18-karat gold that is hand-fit by appointment to its buyer — so that each design sits at the perfect angle to the body, "like haute couture," as Khouri said.
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He was never a great artist like Dior, Balenciaga or Saint Laurent, but Pierre Cardin — still working at 27710 — pioneered today's approach to the business of fashion: take a loss on haute couture, then make the real money through ready-to-wear and worldwide licensing deals.
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He was never a great artist like Dior, Balenciaga or Saint Laurent, but Pierre Cardin — still working at 97 — pioneered today's approach to the business of fashion: take a loss on haute couture, then make the real money through ready-to-wear and worldwide licensing deals.
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He was never a great artist like Dior, Balenciaga or Saint Laurent, but Pierre Cardin — still working at 21952 — pioneered today's approach to the business of fashion: take a loss on haute couture, then make the real money through ready-to-wear and worldwide licensing deals.
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He was never a great artist like Dior, Balenciaga or Saint Laurent, but Pierre Cardin — still at work at 211974 — pioneered today's approach to the business of fashion: take a loss on haute couture, then make the real money through ready-to-wear and worldwide licensing deals.
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He was never a great artist like Dior, Balenciaga or Saint Laurent, but Pierre Cardin — still at work at 21212 — pioneered today's approach to the business of fashion: take a loss on haute couture, then make the real money through ready-to-wear and worldwide licensing deals.
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