Couture Quotes

Couture Quote of the day

Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month.

Only in Paris do couture workers, from seamstress to mannequin, worship a dress and treat it like a baby.

One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.

I have a very haute couture way of working.

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war.

I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future

After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team.

A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff.

I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.

Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.

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

For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.

I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Couture is more your own world, they come and buy head-to-toe ­ - they buy the jewelry, bags, coats, dresses, bodies underneath.... But couture is not dead ­ - it's taken another shape.

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

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.

The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.

[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.

I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often.

In prêt-à-porter now we understandably need to make the collection satisfy the big market more, so couture is extra special.

These five years as a couturier have really changed my way of seeing fashion and my confidence with fashion. Couture is a dream.

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.

The couture client wants the latest things, but she wants the clothes to be super-special - the fabrics won't even touch or go near anything like prêt-à-porter.

I believe that couture is not about shocking.

Couture is emotion. Couture is freedom. Couture is not thinking about pricing and not thinking about craziness. You can do whatever you want to do in couture.

Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling.

I was fascinated looking at John Galliano's couture. They're just extraordinary extravaganzas and I love it. I love looking at it because it's like going to a museum.

On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

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

With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there.

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

I really love Juicy Couture - it's young and fresh.