Big Quote by 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

To be a couture designer is not only to create dresses but to adapt your line to your private customers. It is why couture…

— Hubert de Givenchy

Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes…

— Amanda Harlech

You work around a body and adapt the clothes to your own customer, and this is the interesting part. This is why the haute…

— Hubert de Givenchy

All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see…

— Elizabeth Hawes

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…

— Karl Lagerfeld

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…

— Riccardo Tisci

The ultimate art form of fashion is couture. I completely geek out when it comes to couture. It shows fashion as it used to…

— Diane Kruger

Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for…

— Colleen Atwood

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

— Alber Elbaz

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

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

— L'Wren Scott