Sentence examples for couture elements from inspiring English sources

If the orders start getting larger and her process has to become somewhat industrialized, what couture elements would she be willing to sacrifice?

"There are lots of couture elements and grungy, punkish elements, like a skirt completely embroidered with ribbons and a big man's shirt in cotton organza.

That is in line with Antoine Arnault's vision that "the future is ours to build," referring to the desire to keep the hand-crafted couture elements of Berluti shoes while creating clothing from sports to evening wear and to open stores globally, also with an emphasis on Asia.

Mr. Ghesquiere can come away refreshed from the Balenciaga archive, but for most designers the postwar couture is an element in the cut-and-paste process that largely defines current fashion.

Mr. Sarier, a former assistant to designers like Emanuel Ungaro and Olivier Theyskens, favors a look that combines elements from couture and sport, meaning his evening dresses and jackets, sold at Barneys New York, are usually trimmed with a lot of hardware, drawstrings and zippers so they can be put together and worn in several different ways.

With 45 minutes to go before the Italian house of Versace will opened Paris haute couture week, one familiar element was missing backstage.

"There's a lot of sports elements combined with couture — very tomboy," he added.

It's not difficult to see elements of Paris couture in the shapes, or the influence of Mr. Galliano's early cutting techniques at Dior.

From Chaos to Couture catalogues the key formal elements of punk, and documents their influence on high-end fashion.

Mr. Galliano took the elements of his January couture show — the mouth-watering colors, the glamorous cutting and draping — and turned them into dynamic ready-to-wear.

McQueen's pieces referenced Louis XV and Japanese kabuki theatre, incorporating elements of his idiosyncratic modern couture methods in costumes the dancers found difficult to wear during the performance but which garnered glowing reviews.