How to Use haute couture in a Sentence
haute couture
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Rosamund Pike in Dior haute couture at the Golden Globes.
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No place embodies the spirit of haute couture quite like the Plaza Athénée.
—Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
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The haute couture house is known for its eccentric work.
—Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2023
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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
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Like Mariah is one day in haute couture but is in Levi’s running around town.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2021
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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
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It’s at Lady Dant’s that Mrs. Harris gets her first taste of haute couture.
—Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
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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
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According to Vogue Paris, the gown is an haute couture dress from Chanel that took a total of 1,054 hours to construct.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 2 Sep. 2021
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This was the inaugural runway show for the haute couture brand on African soil.
—Bird Story Agency, Quartz, 19 Jan. 2023
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Working with the maison marked her first time shooting haute couture.
—Amy Verner, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Featuring prominently is a recreation of a spring 1998 haute couture gown, which Stewart wears in the poster and in many pivotal scenes of the film.
—Sam Sussman, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2021
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Back in Hollywood, Elle Fanning was busy pulling out the vintage haute couture.
—Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 2 May 2022
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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
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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
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Rafael Gomes’s mind, to have a haute couture exhibition.
—Erik Maza, Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2023
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Other pieces from the Dior workshop include wool and crepe haute couture looks from John Galliano’s tenure (est.
—David Nash, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2021
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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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This spring, Chanel made a new and much splashier declaration that haute couture will not simply survive, but thrive.
—WSJ, 26 Aug. 2021
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On their wedding day, Hyland wore not one but two haute couture gowns designed by Vera Wang.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
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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
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Each theme was grounded in stylistic imagery, including ’80s fashion, the stars of the American flag and Parisian haute couture.
—Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 10 July 2024
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