Quotes About Couture

Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.

If a piece is individually made to measure, then it's couture.

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

My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother's elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has.

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.

All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.

I love clothes and I love fashion.

I love fashion! I love clothes!

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

Instead, Catherine would become associated with the scent of Miss Dior, a perfume launched at the same time as the couture brand.

Catherine was named the 'moral heir', responsible for preserving Christian Dior's artistic heritage; a task that she took on with her characteristic loyalty, ensuring that his autobiography remained in print, and that his couture creations would be preserved in various archives, as well as supporting the establishment of the Dior museum in Granville.

A Joan Crawford dress looks really good on an hourglass figure.

I follow fashion trends.

I love fashion, I love trends.

I was fascinated looking at John Galliano's couture. They're just extraordinary extravaganzas and I love it. I love looking at it because it's like going to a museum.

I love designing dresses and tops.

Well, I love clothes.

You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.

With couture, you're going right to the consumer, and that's something we learned from doing trunk shows. You're meeting the client; you're finding out what they like and what they don't like. You've really got your customer there in front of you, so you know what works and what doesn't.

I've sold everything from fashion, make-up, couture magazines, radio, reality television, movies. There isn't a thing I haven't sold, including Tampax. You name it.

I was always interested in ladies' fashion.

Couture is emotion. Couture is freedom. Couture is not thinking about pricing and not thinking about craziness. You can do whatever you want to do in couture.