couturiere

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“Chanel craved the power and independence of men,” says Gioia Diliberto, who has written a novel and a play about the couturière and who contributed an essay to the show’s catalog.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2012

One, Valentina Nicholaevna Sanina, later turned up New York as the great couturière Valentina.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2012

Be that as it may, nobody, upon learning that Beijing has its own couturière, would ever imagine such a salon.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2010

She fashioned the garment with an instinctive sense of form that a Parisian couturière might have envied, and went to work.

From Elder Conklin and Other Stories by Harris, Frank

"It looks rather like the waiting-room of a couturière."

From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar