Sentence examples for creating couture from inspiring English sources

And, as the number of designers creating couture collections has dwindled, he hopes the event also will help to revitalize the sector.

Meisner, an energetic Texan of sixty-nine, with brown eyes and ash-blond hair pulled into a tight bun, was a dancer (she once appeared at the Metropolitan Opera) before devoting herself to creating couture apparel.

Eleven years later — when she established the Support Foundation to promote the production of folk handicrafts, in particular mat mii silk, or ikat — she again turned to Mr. Balmain and other international designers to combine the best of Thai and Western styles by creating couture gowns using the hand-woven silk, which is made from tie-dyed yarn.

Bruce Oldfield, the British fashion designer who is more accustomed to creating couture for fashionistas, has redesigned the uniforms for McDonald's British workforce, creating sleek new lines for workers in the fast-food chain's 1,200 U.K. outlets.

These often poked fun at the very thing he helped create: couture and celebrity culture.

Audiences seem to love Chitose Abe of Sacai because she creates couture shapes, or just plain funny shapes, out of common things.

The current work of the Valentino designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaulo Piccioli proves that a younger generation is equally eager to create couture.

At the height of his fame, he created couture and sold his own line of ready-to-wear clothes through the shop Quorum, owned by his friend, Alice Pollock.

Fashion designer Duran Lantink created couture based upon the South African women's visions, and Hoek photographed them wearing the outfits.

"It would be great if he did a portrait of Hakeem, don't you think?" Wiley's series An Economy of Grace was the first time he painted women, casting from the streets of New York and enlisting Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy to create couture gowns.

A large part of that budget went on costumes, with Parisian designers spending six months creating a couture collection especially for the show and more than 1,000 outfits for the cast.