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Haute couture refers to the designing, creating, and selling exclusive custom-made, high fashion women's clothes. The term in fashion industry refers to a premiere clothing line that is uniquely designed to fit the body and posture of a specific client. Haute couture (the business of making, expensive clothes of original design and high quality) comes from the French language. Haute means high or elegant, Couture means sewing or dressmaking.
Haute couture designers use only the finest fabrics and materials, which they painstakingly hand-stitch. Some pieces require more than 100 hours of labor depending on the design.
A business must be a member of the Syndical Chamber for Haute Couture in Paris, which is regulated by the French Department of Industry, in order to be called a haute couture house. To become a member a company must employ at least 15 people and present their collections twice a year. Each presentation must include at least 35 separate outfits for day and evening wear. Each year, in January and July, Paris hosts about 30 shows during the haute couture and 30 men’s wear fashion shows and again in March and October over a hundred women’s ready-to-wear fashion shows. Often, designers will loan clothes to movie stars or other public figures for publicity. Originally referred to French fashion and in France, now the term Haute Couture is also used loosely to describe all high-fashion custom-fitted clothing.
The History of Haute Couture
Haute couture - which literally means high sewing - can be traced back to the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’s reign, but it wasn’t formalized in France until English born designer Charles Worth burst onto the scene and opened his Paris atelier in 1858. It was Worth who founded the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne to regulate the craft of haute couture.
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haute couture meaning and definition: the business of making, expensive clothes of original design and high quality.
Haute couture is one of the most misused terms in fashion. Some of the uninitiated toss it around relentlessly in an ungainly belief that peppering your language with exotic French expressions will make you sound smarter while others use it because haute couture collections are way fancier than ready to wear, so everything that's at least a bit fancy in the eye of the beholder automatically becomes couture: The main misconception people have about the term haute couture is that it applies to all handmade and/or made to order garments, whether manufactured by seamstresses at Dior or aspiring fashion design students. This is not entirely incorrect, but it is a very loose interpretation of the term. Some fashion houses add to the confusion by falsely describing their special collections as haute couture; you would think they should be the first ones making sure the term is used properly, but fashion industry probably fuels the mystery behind these two words on purpose as to create more buzz.
My boyfriend bought me a Hysteric Glamour shirt, They're hard to find in the States, got me feeling couture. Gwen Stefani, Harajuku Girls
To earn the right to call itself a couture house and to use the term haute couture in its advertising and any other way, a fashion house must follow these rules:
Design made to order for private clients, with one or more fittings.
Have a workshop (atelier) in Paris that employs at least fifteen people full-time.
Each season (example: twice a year) present a collection to the Paris press, comprising at least thirty-five runs/exits with outfits for both daytime wear and evening wear.
Many of the well known designers use some of the most expensive fabrics in fashion. These fabrics, such as fur, are commonly used for making bags, hats, jackets and shoes. Fashion professionals, including Kaplan, Georges, Bergdorf, Chanel and Goodman, continue to use animal furs such as leopard, mink, crocodile, chinchilla, and snake among others, in many of their haute couture pieces. Stop killing animal to create purses and other fashion items.
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