Haute couture collections are created with unlimited budgets, but today no more than 500 women in the world buy clothes in haute couture houses.
Today, Levi's jeans have evolved into a world-recognized form of haute couture.
Chanel was the French dress designer who ruled over Parisian haute couture for nearly 60 years.
Very thin women slink along the Paris catwalks to parade the autumn and winter haute couture fashions.
Around 25 designers will show their haute couture collections during the most expensive week of the international fashion.
The sculptural "haute couture" pieces enchant and enthrall with its ingenious construction and tactile allure of porcelain.
Yet his own fashion training was a conventional apprenticeship in haute couture, where he learned his precise cutting skills.
Chanel is well-known fashion icon Coco Chanel’s baby and is considered to be the most elegant and chic brand in haute couture.
Even haute couture, says Luca Solca, an analyst at Bernstein Research, is not immune to the downward pressure on prices exerted by high-street brands such as Zara.
A handbag named in honor of South Korean actress Song Hye Kyo was released at a haute couture fashion show in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
Show 100 people this outfit and I'd bet a stuffed toy leopard not one of them would say, "Ooh, Givenchy haute couture!"
Though the haute couture stuff was mandatory for official court functions and amusements-Louis didn't like unfashionable people around him-the courtiers apparently got out of them as soon as they could.
Veteran French designer Yves Saint Laurent (C) is surrounded by models as he acknowledges applause at the end of his retrospective haute couture fashion show at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, January 22, 2002.
Of course, much of Parisian culture is rooted in the city's chic, designer boutiques (head to the Rue Charlot and Rue Vieille du Temple for the latest in haute couture.
In world fashion, another round of catwalk shows has begun with Paris. Around25 designers will show their haute couture collections during the most expensive week of the international fashion.
