I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story…

I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees…

— Yves Saint Laurent

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…

— Yves Saint Laurent

I will never forget my first Valentino Haute Couture show.

— KiKi Layne

With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there.

— Patrick Demarchelier

It really is the very top of the fashion world; nothing comes above haute couture. But not any old designer can create something magical…

— Dawn O'Porter

When I thought about the absolute favourite of favourites or what stood for the best of haute couture, it was Givenchy.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only

— Coco Chanel

Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

— Coco Chanel

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

— Valentino Garavani

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

— Hedi Slimane

Couture is also a term used for top-of-the-range, to-order clothing - but not to the level of intricacy and expense as haute couture. And…

— Dawn O'Porter

I have a very haute couture way of working.

— John Galliano

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

— Olivier Theyskens

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…

— Ines de La Fressange