About Haute Couture by Susan Tabak

Haute Couture is a french phrase for high fashion. Couture means dressmaking, sewing or needlework and haute means elegant or high so the two combined imply excellent artistry with the fashioning of garments. The purchase of a haute couture model garment is at the top level of hand customised fashion design and clothing construction made by a couture design house a model haute couture garment is made specifically for the wearers measurements and body stance. The made to measure exclusive clothes are virtually made by hand, carefully interlined stay taped and fitted to perfection for each client.

Dependant on the haute couture design house and the garment the cost of a couture item runs from about 20,000- 80,000 dollars and often beyond that figure. if you are not rich it's hard for an indiviual to understand why the price is so high but it is for service workmanship originality of a unique design and superb materials of the finest quality.

Selling the haute couture dream - design houses presentexpensive million dollar fashion shows - The couture house sells only a very limited percentage of haute couture model garments to a contracting number of customers .

The fashion show attracts huge media attention and gain enourmous publicity for the couture houses. they sell a dream of the intangible. a dream of chic cachet of beauty desirability and exclusiveness that the ordinary person can buy into.

About Haute Couture by Susan Tabak

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