high dressmaking, now meaning high fashion
Hi-Fashion garments (of which only a single price is produced) It's extravagant, it's irrational, it's Unique and it's totally unaffordable.
French term for 'high fashion', also used to describe a particular Paris-centred sartorial art form.
High fashion, hand made, staggeringly expensive one of a kind pieces that often require three fittings. To qualify as an haute couture piece a garment must follow several strict guidelines. For a label or business to qualify as a couture house it must belong to the Syndical Chamber for Haute Couture in Paris.
The term used to describe custom-made clothes. From the French haute couture, or high sewing, this term usually applies to women's fine garments and has come to define a segment of the fashion industry that uses the custom-making business as a platform to explore new styles and push the boundaries of specialized dressmaking and tailoring.
Haute couture (French for "high sewing" or "high dressmaking"; IPA: ) refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted fashions. It originally referred to French fashion and in France, is a "protected name" that can be used only by firms that meet certain well-defined standards. However, the term is also used loosely to comprise all high-fashion custom-fitted clothing, whether it is produced in Paris or in other fashion capitals such as New York, London, and Milan.