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"His major contribution was that he was somehow able to transform his ideas from the elite enterprise of couture into something that was accepted by the mainstream," said Harold Koda, costume curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

It was an era of unprecedented social mobility, when fashion was expanding from rationing and haute couture into mass market, and the emphasis on individual creativity was making the idea of vintage attractive.

It was like Jackie Onassis used to sneak the French couture into the White House.

However, it is not often that women could incorporate her Haute Couture into their bustling daily lives.

What can that mean, apart from reading "all" newspapers, shoving $160,000 worth of couture into garbage bags, and looking to Joe The Plumber, whose name isn't Joe and who isn't a plumber, for advice?

The little tidbit has passed through the curtain of couture cooking into the mainstream.

As Lagerfeld's biographer Alicia Drake wrote, Aghion encouraged him to escape from his formal couture training into a lighter, faster world.

In 2013, van Herpen launched a ready-to-wear line, which offered simplified versions of the technical fabrics that had become her signature, and translated the complex structures of her couture clothing into more affordable flourishes in trim and detailing.

Now, many companies across what is called the fast-fashion industry are scrambling to reproduce not one, but two gowns designed originally by Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen, doubling the pressure to turn the couture designs into mass-market creations as soon as possible.

Plus, in an age of mass consumption it brings a little avant-garde haute couture glam into your life.

Aside from the $20 billion being invested in the new World Trade Center area, an $875 million project by Frank Gehry will see the tallest residential building in New York (set to open in 2012), and in 2014, haute couture moves into Lower Manhattan when the fashion moguls at Condé Nast move their headquarters into One World Trade Center.