Quotes & Sayings About Haute Couture

Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us. — Christian Dior

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

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

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.' — Anna Deavere Smith

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams. — Alain Wertheimer

Only the fat-cat corporations can really afford to put on two mega-ready-to-wear shows a year, or four if you add two haute couture shows, or six if you count men's wear. Resort and prefall push the number up to eight. A couple of promotional shows in Asia, Brazil, Dubai or Moscow can bring the count to 10. — Suzy Menkes

I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture. — Christian Dior

I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies. — Suzy Menkes

For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive. — Christian Lacroix

The look is elegant and sacrilegious and makes me feel sacred and immoral.
Haute couture and getting hauter. — Chuck Palahniuk

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable. — Christian Lacroix

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all. — Trinny Woodall

With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there. — Patrick Demarchelier

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

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

Aurore had a well-maintained body that met the basic requirements of haute couture. — Suzanne Stroh

I think perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of fear. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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. — Ines De La Fressange

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 garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I have a very haute couture way of working. — John Galliano