Haute Couture Quotes

• Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

  Christian Lacroix

  Fashion, Fun, Foolish

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• Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Order, Imperfection, Secret

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• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Life Changing, Sky

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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• For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive.

  Christian Lacroix

  Jobs, Skills, Comfort

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• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Dresses, Accessories

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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• With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  Dream, Dior, Couture

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• Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Sky, Dresses

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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• It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Shoes, Perfectionism, Ends

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• I have a very haute couture way of working.

  John Galliano

  Way, Couture

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• I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Political, Language, Figures

  "My LA: Theater, Film And Television Actress Anna Deavere Smith". Interview with Heather Wood Rudulph, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2011.

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• I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

  Valentino Garavani

  Couture

  Interview with Marion Hume, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.

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• I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Beautiful, Children, Knowing

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• Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Fashion, House, Age

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• I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture.

  Christian Dior

  Christian, Years, Secret

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