How to Use haute couture in a Sentence

haute couture

noun
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  • Models, decked out in the brightest and boldest beauty looks for all of the haute couture shows.
    — Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Like Mariah is one day in haute couture but is in Levi’s running around town.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2021
  • In a nod to haute couture fashion, the engraved pleated motif on the edge of the dial of the Égérie is inspired by the pleats on a skirt.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Gowns with the flair of theater costumes (a distinct departure from his ready-to-wear garments) turned haute couture into an escape from reality.
    — Alice Pfieffer, CNN, 1 July 2024
  • Later in the night, Lorde made an outfit change into a gold lamé suit, also a Dior haute couture creation, for her onstage performance.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Nov. 2021
  • More recently, her spring 2021 haute couture season was a gloriously intensive study of the tarot deck.
    — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The walls appear to be covered in grasscloth, but it’s actually silk shantung, a material with mileage in a number of nearby haute couture ateliers.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Her elaborate wardrobe of haute couture and vintage came complete with masks, headdresses, and veils, but the star’s standout fashion moment kept the focus on her features—and her music.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2021
  • There’s a chic black tag sewn on the inside with the signature of Mexican-American haute couture milliner Gladys Tamez.
    — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • While the tradition, history, and highly-skilled craftsmanship of haute couture will always have a place, other creatives are proving how the industry can evolve.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Rosamund Pike in Dior haute couture at the Golden Globes.
    — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Valentino is a tribute to the haute couture and all the over-the-top display of wealth that comes with it.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2022
  • Her attire, never off the cuff, is a study of style, class and 1960s haute couture.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The haute couture metallic silver lamé gown featured a large bow across the bust and a long cape that draped down to the floor.
    — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 16 Mar. 2023
  • My first film was about Valentino, which was the opposite end of the spectrum — the world of haute couture.
    — Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
  • No place embodies the spirit of haute couture quite like the Plaza Athénée.
    — Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The haute couture house is known for its eccentric work.
    — Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • It’s at Lady Dant’s that Mrs. Harris gets her first taste of haute couture.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
  • Platform/chunky boots or shoes, statement pieces, haute couture are the best things to pair a New Bedstuy piece with.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This was the inaugural runway show for the haute couture brand on African soil.
    — Bird Story Agency, Quartz, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Working with the maison marked her first time shooting haute couture.
    — Amy Verner, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Attending the brand's fall/winter 2022 haute couture show this past July, the actress wowed in a hot pink tulle dress.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The chic armor was part of a custom haute couture outfit the house of Givenchy crafted for Chalamet.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Feb. 2024
  • For the outing, Hadid slipped into more haute couture pieces, this time from the brand's fall 2021 collection.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 July 2022
  • Janelle Monáe went full solar flare in a Vera Wang haute couture vivid orange skirt with a black bustier.
    — Maane Khatchatourian, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Back in Hollywood, Elle Fanning was busy pulling out the vintage haute couture.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 2 May 2022
  • Hanae Mori, the first Asian fashion designer to break into the exclusive world of haute couture, has died at aged 96.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Working during the rise of haute couture, both Sargent and his subjects were living through a new dawn of fashion.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Rafael Gomes’s mind, to have a haute couture exhibition.
    — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2023
  • He’s poised to take his place as creative director of the haute couture house Orsino, following the death of its eponymous founder.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023

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