Haute Couture Techniques

Art | Engineering | Needlework

Haute couture is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted high-end fashion design. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Paris became the centre of a growing industry focused on making outfits from high-quality, expensive, often unusual fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable of sewers — often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques. Couture translates literally from French as "dressmaking", sewing, or needlework. Now in the 21st century, the term is used to describe all high-fashion, custom-fitted clothing produced in the fashion capitals of London, New York City, Paris and Milan. The term can refer to fashion houses, or fashion designers, that create exclusive and often trend-setting fashions or to the fashions created.
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