Couture Quotes - Page 2

• Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

  Edith Head

  Years, Ideas, Costumes

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• It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

  Nick Frost

  Nice, Writing, Character

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• With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Thinking, Design, Modern

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• I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Tattoo, Dream, Fashion

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• On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Christian, Morning, Dior

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• When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

  Naomi Campbell

  Real, Capes, Saint

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• Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Looks, Today, Expensive

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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• A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff.

  Nina Garcia

  Shoes, Looks, Pairs

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• I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war.

  Kanye West

  War, Men, Juicy

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Don't say you don't know! It's because of Kim. Meaning there's no photo that I would have put up by myself, or next to one of my smarty friends, that would have got that amount of likes. So now you take this photo that has that amount of likes, and it has a flower wall from the same guy who does the Lanvin shows, and it has a couture Givenchy dress and Givenchy tuxedo in it. That's the point. Now the thing that is the most popular is also communicating the highest level of creativity. The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

  Kanye West

  Wall, Flower, Writing

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• I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Bows, Pot, Feels

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• 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

  Christian, Years, Secret

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• After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team.

  Jimmy Choo

  Team, Names, Important

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• I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Different, Beast, Whole

  Interview with Jimmy Fallon, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

  John Singer Sargent

  Book, Technique, Different

  "John Sargent". Book by K.C. Charteris, p. 1231927, 1927.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Children, Knowing

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• Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

  Alber Elbaz

  Color, Two, Trying

  Interview with Cathy Horyn, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. June 17, 2007.

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

  Alber Elbaz

  Problem, Designer, Happens

  Interview with Cathy Horyn, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. June 17, 2007.

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• I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often.

  Emma Watson

  Nice, Stuff, Designer

  Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2009.

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• For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.

  Donatella Versace

  Clothes, Long, Versace

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Risk, Athleticism

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• Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

  Alexander McQueen

  Clothes, Kitchen, Saint

  "Remembering Alexander McQueen". Interview with Karl Plewka, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1997.

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• I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

  Christian Lacroix

  Two, Drawing, Hot

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• The ultimate art form of fashion is couture. I completely geek out when it comes to couture. It shows fashion as it used to be. I don't know how many people can actually afford the clothes, but in a way, that's beside the point.

  Diane Kruger

  Fashion, Art, Clothes

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• I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dresses, Different, Common

  "The Beyoncé Experience". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 13, 2007.

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