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

But Supplis was an exception, and he never assumed the name of couturier, the masculine form of couturière, "dress-maker."

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various