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couturier

kooh too ree er

  • n  someone who designs clothing

  • Christian Dior, the great French couturier who brought fashion out of the deprivations of World War II with the New Look, had died suddenly three months before, and Saint Laurent .
  • Alessandra Facchinetti, a former designer of Gucci, will replace the legendary couturier as creative director of the Valentino women's collections.
  • Even then, Chanel clothes were as high-priced as any Paris couturier's: but only Chanel delighted in having her styles copied--and made accessible at low cost to millions.
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  • Donatella Versace in Telegraph.co.uk
    He was a gentleman of another time,Donatella Versace told Women's Wear Daily. "He was a great couturier that knew how to create absolute chic with details that I'll never tire of looking at and that will remain a part of the history of...
  • John Velazquez in Thoroughbred Times
    We had a good trip,Velazquez said. "The other horse [Grand Couturier] found room on the inside and all of a sudden got through."
  • Juliette Binoche in Independent
    The 42-year-old Binoche says she wanted to play the role because, "I'm playing an immigrant who worked as a musician in Sarajevo and is a sew...... what is the word for someone who sews, a couturier?"

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