Inside the opera house, some patrons wore furs, while for others low-cut haute couture sufficed.
America is unconquered territory, as are Europe's centres of haute couture, France and Italy.
It is Haute Couture Week in Singapore, an event he leads after luring it away from Paris.
For example, eBay is a wonderful resource and even has a site devoted to haute couture.
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Many times the exquisite beauty of haute couture is lost on the runway.
At this January's haute couture collection for spring and summer, only 20 designers put their creative talents to the catwalk test.
Seventy-five-year-old Texas socialite Lynn Wyatt exhibited her wardrobe of vintage haute couture.
The new creations were launched in Paris Friday during Haute Couture Week.
Lawrence was in a Dior Haute Couture gown with origami-like bodice cups.
Vogue editor Anna Wintour made a stop at the All England Club before the Paris haute couture collections to catch a Federer match.
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At the 85th Academy Awards, Jennifer Lawrence transformed herself into a Parisian Prom Queen when she chose a strapless Dior Haute Couture dress.
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Connolly clothes were not the sort you bought off the peg, but like much haute couture they had an influence on the broader market.
Brands such as Etcetera, Carlisle, and Worth offer upscale clothing in a variety of styles, updated as frequently as any haute couture.
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The shoes from Roger Vivier, with their silk flowers and diamond buckles, their French quality of confection, breathe the rarefied air of the haute couture.
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Although different designers have produced various styles of work for the company, LaCie's overall aesthetic maintains a sense of haute couture-ism bordering on the avant-garde.
Not surprisingly, the customers for haute couture have dwindled to at most 2, 000 women around the world (their names kept discreetly private by the fashion houses).
Already uncannily similar in looks, Tautou's strong performance breathes life into Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the fiery designer who would found iconic Parisian haute couture house, Chanel.
To protect what would now be called his intellectual property, Worth in 1868 founded the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture to promote and market Parisian tailoring.
Recalling looks that originated in Paris haute couture in the 1950s, rounded drop shoulders emerged on New York's runways and were confirmed as a trend in Milan.
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Haute couture began a slow decline in the 1950s, accelerated by the baby-boomer youthquake, the radical change in lifestyle that followed and the rise of designer ready-to-wear.
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"Today's black dolls have evolved from negative caricatures to play-scale representations of haute couture fashion models and other positive images of babies, toddlers and adult black people, " says Garrett.
But the pop-up shop does have a rugged feel, because it's alfresco, and continues to sell Shanghai Tang's pricey Chinese-style haute couture as well as provide the label's well-respected bespoke tailoring services.
The biggest risk takers were Zoe Saldana in a gorgeous hot off the runway Givenchy Haute Couture gown with a sheer top, and Rose Byrne in a crystal embellished Elie Saab jumpsuit.
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One was that haute couture, hitherto available only to the very rich or vicariously through magazines and newspapers, should be sold worldwide in ready-to-wear shops at a fraction of the posh price.
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Gianni Versace's safety-pin dress practically made Elizabeth Hurley a household name in 1994, and the red harness gown that Hilary Rhoda wore in the Dior 2007 haute couture show also on display certainly turned heads.
Back in the 1980s Japanese designers made a big splash, but not until three years ago was a "new Asian" influence on haute couture noted, with designers Derek Lam, Peter Som, Phillip Lim and Richard Chai leading the pack.
Those stories were about '20s Chanel dresses, costumes from the Ballets Russes and an entire wardrobe created in the 1870s for a Roman princess by Charles Frederick Worth (the world's very first haute couture designer), bought for her by Lagerfeld.
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