couture

It’s because a couture seamstress spent 15 hours sewing them.

Even though the clothing’s pharaonic prices didn’t cover the cost of crafting the made-to-measure garments, the media coverage generated by his couture shows helped sell lower sticker-price items, like hats, belts and hosiery.

Cardin saw the astronomical expense of producing haute couture collections as an investment.

As with haute couture, some brands charge higher prices in accordance with their reputation - not because they are offering some special feature that will make going for a run in them better or safer than wearing anything else on the road.

In his free time of late, he’s made some couture masks embellished with pearls and crystals that have been a hit on social media.

But the phenomenon of counterfeiting is as old as couture itself.

But while that level of ‘haute couture’ is building the market, we want to be seen as more prêt-à-porter.

Earlier this week, Martin Rouleau-Couture ran his car into two Canadian soldiers in Quebec, killing one and wounding another.

Rouleau-Couture and Zehaf-Bibeau were both reportedly born in Canada and lived in Quebec before recently converting to Islam.

Martin Couture-Rouleau, the suspect in that incident, was arrested in July while trying to travel to Turkey.

Couture was always welcome at the home of the courtesan, who dreamed, perhaps, of making him her husband.

At the time of his transient wealth Couture splendidly maintained Jenny Cadine.

Couture is a very minor character, a financial speculator, who only hung on the fringe of the viveurs.

It was at this time that young Puvis entered the studio of Couture.

See M. Thomas Couture's narrative at the end of this chapter.