Couture Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Shoes, Haute Couture, Perfectionism

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

  Valentino Garavani

  Haute Couture

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

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• A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Pet, Mutts, World

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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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• Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Creativity, Skills, Talent

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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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• After I knock out Randy Couture, I'll fight for the heavyweight title, the real heavyweight boxing title in October or November, come back and fight in the UFC in January or February. It doesn't matter, I'm a two sport athlete. The oldest man to ever do that.

  James Toney

  Sports, Motivation, Real

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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 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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• [Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.

  Erykah Badu

  Interesting, Weaving, Tribes

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• With couture you have faithfulness - people are faithful to you. In couture, you will see that the cut looks like a lace dress from a distance, but it's only when you get nearer you understand that it's layers of lace, hand stitched in a certain shape, all the work - the zips, the buttons, the hooks... it goes on.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Distance, Cutting, Hands

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In the beginning, I couldn't react. I was just working like a machine, because I wanted to make the house happy.

  Riccardo Tisci

  People, House, Bags

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 anything like prêt-à-porter.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Clothes, Special, Want

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• I believe that couture is not about shocking.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Believe, I Believe, Shocking

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.

  Alexander McQueen

  Kitchen, Looks, Grotesque

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

  Jimmy Choo

  Names, Ideas, Design

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• Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Icons, Influence, Guinness

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

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• Couture is more your own world, they come and buy head-to-toe ­ - they buy the jewelry, bags, coats, dresses, bodies underneath.... But couture is not dead ­ - it's taken another shape.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Taken, Dresses, Bags

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

  Hamish Bowles

  Years, Pieces, Firsts

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

  Olivier Theyskens

  Fashion, House, Age

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• I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Thinking, Should Have, Conquer The World

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• I really love Juicy Couture - it's young and fresh.

  Dionne Bromfield

  Juicy, Young

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

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Political, Haute Couture, Language

  "My LA: Theater, Film And Television Actress Anna Deavere Smith". Interview with Heather Wood Rudulph, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2011.

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• I have a very haute couture way of working.

  John Galliano

  Haute Couture, Way

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