haute-couture

With automotive sales falling, high-end cars makers such as BMW are diversifying their portfolios and fostering their own brands of haute-couture bicycles.

The Rise of the Designer Bike Benoit Faucon 2011

Mr. Gaultier will continue to take responsibility for the creative activities and image of the fashion house, which has a haute-couture business as well as perfume, licensed to Beaute Prestige International, a subsidiary of Japan-based Shiseido Co.

Hermès Sells Stake in Gaultier Label Elena Berton 2011

This exhibition presents 80 drawings and 150 haute-couture and ready-to-wear items, alongside photographs and films documenting the YSL phenomenon.

What's On Around Europe 2011

Called Digital Fashion Shows, the platform will launch during New York Fashion Week next month with a show by designer Prabal Gurung , said Ed Filipowski , KCD's co-president, in an interview from Paris where he is attending haute-couture week.

For Couture Shows, Digital Catwalk Is the New Fashion Christina Binkley 2012

Sophie Theallet says she simplified some of her trademark labor-intensive haute-couture elements, like hand-stitched insets.

From the Runways, Five Easy Pieces for Fall Christina Binkley 2011

AFP/Getty Images A style by designer Paco Rabanne for his 1970 Spring/Summer haute-couture collection includes a miniskirt of aluminium sequins.

The Rise and Fall of the Mini 2011

Millicent's haute-couture hobby was but a preliminary to her most striking transformation.

She Wore It Well Amy Finnerty 2011

Indeed, no detail is overlooked: from private plunge pools, glossy art books galore, colossal showers big enough for a small army, pretty cream-colored bicycles for a ride to the Place des Lices outdoor market in St. Tropez, a poolside "sun butler" offering a tray of protective lotions, right down to the haute-couture staff uniforms (think little navy dresses with lace collars and faux-tuxedo T-shirts) designed by Alexis Mabille.

Seductive St. Tropez 2010

Mr. Parker ' s apartment is the brainchild of Swiss Development Group SA, a developer which two years ago partnered with luxury hotel chain Kempinski to create a concept called haute-couture living.

Living in the Lap of Luxury Tara Loader Wilkinson 2010

Whoever Simon was, he was important enough to trade her standard work attire of black trousers and white blouse for a haute-couture outfit she bought on her last trip to Paris—caramel cashmere sweater with a sexy diagonal neckline, tobacco-colored wool skirt with a side slit, and a striking leather bow belt.

The Viognier Vendetta Ellen Crosby 2010