But the first true haute couturier is widely considered to have been Charles Frederick Worth.
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Though the cardigan was by Paris couturier Azzedine Alaia, many deemed the choice too casual for a royal moment.
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Simmonds and Sean Couturier helped keep the puck alive before Voracek poked it in from the crease for the 2-0 lead.
French couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier is providing a fashionable way for investors to diversify holdings and hedge against inflation with designer gold bars.
"Coco" charts the couturier's early life -- an almost fairytale journey from orphaned cabaret performer in Moulins to the 20th Century's foremost fashion designer.
It could be said that if Oscar de la Renta is the Park Avenue Princess's couturier of choice, then Kors is their regular tailor.
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The era of couturier as artist and arbiter had arrived.
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The American couturier Charles James known for his sexy, structured ballgowns worn by the likes of strip-tease artist Gypsy Rose Lee also peddled pint-sized fashions during that time.
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In creating his collection, Oscar de la Renta invited disgraced Parisian couturier John Galliano to participate in a three-week "residency, " where he shared ideas in Mr. de la Renta's workshop.
It was a century later, however, during the reign of couturier Charles Frederick Worth, that the haute couture was established in 1868 and Paris's role as the world's wellspring of trends was formalized.
Though he had dedicated himself to "making clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition, " he still felt that he had become a "society designer, " to his disappointment.
Renovated and restored to its original glory by the great French interior designer Robert Couturier, today it boasts rooms decorated with superb Mexican and European antiques, endless formal gardens, an aquamarine pool and a rooftop terrace for dining under the stars.
The Paris prosecutors, it seems, wanted to investigate the suspicion that he reduced the tax bill of Karl Lagerfeld, a pony-tailed couturier, in return for being given a video by Mr Lagerfeld's lawyer that implicated Jacques Chirac, France's president, in the political-financing scandal.
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