couture

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The unusual combination of coming from a background in Arabic couture and being as naturally experimental as any shoe designer I've ever met, meshes to create designs that are stunningly unique but unquestionably "work".

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  1. noun The business of designing, making, and selling highly fashionable, usually custom-made clothing for women.
  2. noun Dressmakers and fashion designers considered as a group.
  3. noun The high-fashion clothing created by designers.

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  • The ballroom was a museum of exquisite court couture, and mannered gestures, and weak, epicene faces. —  F ;SF - vol 092 issue 01 - January 1997
  • Regal in Christian Dior couture, the former model was a picture of never-to-be-achieved aspiration. —  Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • The unusual combination of coming from a background in Arabic couture and being as naturally experimental as any shoe designer I've ever met, meshes to create designs that are stunningly unique but unquestionably "work". —  What's Haute Magazine
  • Among the models of the organic haute couture were the former Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Earth, —  PRWeb
  • Berge and St. Laurent understood that haute couture was a dying art and in 1966 started their own ready-to-wear line, a revolutionary move at the time. —  San Francisco Sentinel
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  1. French, sewing, from Old French cousture, from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsuere, cōnsūt-, to sew together : com-, com- + suere, to sew; see syū- in Indo-European roots.
 

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