Sentence examples for couturier from from inspiring English sources
But the next moment belonged unmistakably to Christian Lacroix, a couturier from Arles, in the South of France.
From banker to couturier, from civil servant to tycoon, they are a group of fascinating diversity with a wide array of tastes.Some are flamboyant, some reclusive.
Miss Frye & Miss Hudiburg bought the Canine Couturiere franchise-formerly called Canine Couturier from Gregg Juarez, of the House of Juarez, an interior-decorating firm.
Such bows were a signature design of Cristobal Balenciaga, the great couturier from Spain who opened his house in Paris in the 1930s.
There are two clues that the concept isn't from a top couturier, but from an upstart house, Viktor & Rolf.
It brings together some of the highlights of the couturier's career, from his Trapeze dresses at Dior to a Matisse-inspired dress once worn by France's first lady, Carla Bruni, during her modelling career.
In 1992, Scherrer became the first couturier to be evicted from his own fashion house.
Fashion journals religiously chronicled Mrs. Mellon's taste, tracking her migration from the couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga to Givenchy after Balenciaga's retirement.
When Sergei Diaghilev's dance company, the Ballets Russes, settled in Paris after the 1917 Russian Revolution, it commissioned sets, costumes and posters from a dazzling group of artists including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Jean Cocteau, as well as from the couturier Coco Chanel.
Not that Mrs. Sollar spent much by today's wildly priced wedding-dress standards, where something from the couturier Monique Lhuillier's Platinum Collection can sell for upward of $20,000.
The vogue for things Moroccan in the international fashion and design world (everyone from Parisian couturier stars to old English banking tycoons has a restored villa in the medina) and the attraction of Marrakesh for travelers have resulted in an abundance of small, palace-style hotels featuring the best of traditional Moroccan craftsmanship.
