Mon 11 Feb 2008
“Haute Couture” is one of those phrases that is bandied about in popular culture. But its uses are not always faithful to its real meaning. Like “champagne”, “haute couture” is a carefully regulated term. And you can no more apply that term to any old pretty frock, than you can call any glass sparkling plonk, champagne.
The Spring 2008 Couture collections are taking place in Paris and it got me thinking about what couture means and what it takes to qualify to show at a couture collection. For all intensive purposes, the couture collections are the Rolls Royce of fashion shows. Literally translating as “high sewing,” you can’t get any finer, or more expensive, garments out there.
