Haute Couture Quotes:

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

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: Political, Haute Couture, Language, Administrators

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

- Christian Lacroix

topic: Fun, Haute Couture, Foolish, Couture

I have a very haute couture way of working.

- John Galliano

topic: Haute Couture, Way, Couture

With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there.

- Patrick Demarchelier

topic: Dream, Dior, Haute Couture

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

- Valentino Garavani

source: Interview with Marion Hume, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.

topic: Haute Couture, Couture

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

topic: Shoes, Haute Couture, Perfectionism, Good Shoes

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

topic: Order, Imperfection, Secret, Couture, Haute Couture

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

- Coco Chanel

source: "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

topic: Fashion, Life Changing, Sky, Inspiring Fashion, Old Fashion

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

topic: Jobs, Skills, Comfort, Couture, Haute Couture

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

topic: Beautiful, Children, Knowing, Couture, Haute Couture

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

- Olivier Theyskens

topic: Fashion, House, Age, Haute Couture

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

topic: Christian, Years, Secret, Couture, Dior