What is "fashion houses"

Usage examples of "fashion houses".

Since it would have been impractical for the London fashion houses to publish books showing their creations, and since the newspapers and magazines which reached the colonies were deficient in illustrations, it had become the custom for merchants to construct articulated dolls, fourteen inches high, and dress them in exact replicas of the latest mode.

A few of them made a kind of business of it, crossing the In Ovo every few months to get news of the Fifth and selling it to the fashion houses, the architects, and so on.

The rush by upscale fashion houses to embrace streetwear has backlashed—.

VO: The rush by upscale fashion houses to embrace streetwear has backlashedat street level.

The rush by upscale fashion houses to embrace streetwear has backlashed-at street level.

The French leader of one of the world's largest women's fashion houses rapped his fist on the table.

Other members of the board include the Japanese head of a huge electronics firm, the French head of one of the world's largest fashion houses, an Italian' owner of cargo ships, the CEO of a major Asian airline, a Russian entrepreneur who operates aluminum and copper mines, a British subject who owns a publishing empire and the former U.

We discussed fashion houses and fabrics and the frightful expense of dressmaking.

Other members of the board include the Japanesehead of a huge electronics firm, the French head of one of the world'slargest fashion houses, an Italian' owner of cargo ships, the CEO of amajor Asian airline, a Russian entrepreneur who operates aluminum andcopper mines, a British subject who owns a publishing empire and theformer U.

Whatever remained from Jacqueline's earnings as a model, after she had bought her cosmetics and lingerie, and her shoes and dresses-all of which came from the top fashion houses and were, even after the discount she received as a model, frightfully expensive-was swallowed by the gaping maw of the family purse and disappeared, God only knows where.

Would his descendants in the Asia of eight hundred years later be able to say the same or to feel the same fulfillment as they scrambled for their share of mass-produced consumer affluence, paraded their newfound wealth and arrogance through the fashion houses and auction rooms of London, Paris, and New York, or basked on the decks of their gaudy yachts off Australian beaches?

Two major fashion houses want to license your costume as the basis for new lines of men's clothing.

It was well into July, and the summer sun and blue skies had brought out the colors on the London streets: the shirts and dresses of the tourists and late-morning shoppers, the seasonal offerings in the windows of the fashion houses, and riotous displays of orchids, roses, and lilies on the carts of streetcorner flower vendors.

So why should the big manufacturers, publishing houses, record companies, software companies and fashion houses worry?

Accomplished artists, concert musicians, heads of fashion houses and other competitive businesses, administrators, editors, women in government.