couture

Definitions

Examples

• It’s because a couture seamstress spent 15 hours sewing them.

• Even though the clothing’s pharaonic prices didn’t cover the cost of crafting the made-to-measure garments, the media coverage generated by his couture shows helped sell lower sticker-price items, like hats, belts and hosiery.

• Cardin saw the astronomical expense of producing haute couture collections as an investment.

• As with haute couture, some brands charge higher prices in accordance with their reputation - not because they are offering some special feature that will make going for a run in them better or safer than wearing anything else on the road.

• In his free time of late, he’s made some couture masks embellished with pearls and crystals that have been a hit on social media.

• But the phenomenon of counterfeiting is as old as couture itself.

• But while that level of ‘haute couture’ is building the market, we want to be seen as more prêt-à-porter.

• Earlier this week, Martin Rouleau-Couture ran his car into two Canadian soldiers in Quebec, killing one and wounding another.

• Rouleau-Couture and Zehaf-Bibeau were both reportedly born in Canada and lived in Quebec before recently converting to Islam.

• Martin Couture-Rouleau, the suspect in that incident, was arrested in July while trying to travel to Turkey.

• was always welcome at the home of the courtesan, who dreamed, perhaps, of making him her husband.