What is "couture"

Usage examples of "couture".

Once inside, though, the cloaks were discarded like so many unwanted chrysalises to reveal Paris couture fashions and jewellery to rival the contents of the Tower of London.

The decision prompted thoughts of the couture bait so hopefully dangled by Francoise Sanglier just as the Algerian taxi driver, chancing that she was a tourist, made a totally unnecessary detour to increase the fare by going over to the Left Bank to drive past the National Assembly.

Dissemination-Grids, screens so hígh-def you might as well be there, cost-effective videophonic conferencing, internal Froxx CD-ROM, electronic couture, all-in-one consoles, Yushityu ceramic nanoprocessors, laser chromatography, Virtual-capable media-cards, fiber-optic pulse, digital encoding, killer apps.

Closer up, she showed a real faded beauty: pale, almost transparent skin over haute couture cheekbones, full lips and the comeliest head of gray-brown hair he'd ever seen.

As he listened to the description of the priceless sable coat, the sapphire necklace, the couture model gown and the jewel-strap slippers, he felt as if he were congealing to his chair as his breakfast cooled and hardened on the plate.

Lola had picked it up last year from an acquaintance who fenced for a haute couture shoplifting ring, and considered it worth every penny it had cost-a serious outlay of money even after the five-finger discount.

He had asked the driver to take him round the block twice, an American tourist whose wife was shopping in the strip of haute couture.

If haute couture ever discovers kevlar, I'll be doing turns on Paris runways.

Such forgiveness of one's flaws was unprecedented in the world of haute couture.

My mother was palpably pleased to be inside a house of haute couture.

He turned her bony arm around behind her, then took her by the back of her haute couture top and led her out beyond the rail.

Iran, Chile, the Phoenix program, Angola, Cambodia, one monstrous miscalculation a few thousand body counts later and they're right there holding their heads up in Le Cirque and Acapulco, obsequious interviews in the Times and discreet dinner parties comparing their little black books with the other black tie refuse, even an expresident or two or their dazed widows, a few decorators, haute couture, any transient damned joke on reality while he's peddling the thing itself on the side in a poisonous little package like Lester.

What I want is to learn haute couture, that's where all the secrets are.

Luckily for me, but unluckily for the thug concerned, Olga's childlike enthusiasms include embroidery, violins, haute couture, and semiautomatic weapons.

I'm not used to haute couture and don't know how to handle it, but Mr.