haute couture

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

Jacqueline Kennedy helped change all that in the 1960s, with her unflappable chic and wardrobe full of haute couture.

After the drabness of the 1950s, her clothes were chic and slightly transgressive, but not haute couture.

There are collections for Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter and Haute Couture and Resort.

Yet, despite his recognition by the Syndic de la Haute Couture, very few in the west have heard of Valentin Yudashkin.