How to Use haute couture in a Sentence

haute couture

noun
  • Rosamund Pike in Dior haute couture at the Golden Globes.
    Alice Newbold, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Valentino is a tribute to the haute couture and all the over-the-top display of wealth that comes with it.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2022
  • Her attire, never off the cuff, is a study of style, class and 1960s haute couture.
    Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The haute couture metallic silver lamé gown featured a large bow across the bust and a long cape that draped down to the floor.
    Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 16 Mar. 2023
  • My first film was about Valentino, which was the opposite end of the spectrum — the world of haute couture.
    Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022
  • No place embodies the spirit of haute couture quite like the Plaza Athénée.
    Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The haute couture house is known for its eccentric work.
    Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • It’s at Lady Dant’s that Mrs. Harris gets her first taste of haute couture.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
  • Platform/chunky boots or shoes, statement pieces, haute couture are the best things to pair a New Bedstuy piece with.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • This was the inaugural runway show for the haute couture brand on African soil.
    Bird Story Agency, Quartz, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Working with the maison marked her first time shooting haute couture.
    Amy Verner, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Attending the brand's fall/winter 2022 haute couture show this past July, the actress wowed in a hot pink tulle dress.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The chic armor was part of a custom haute couture outfit the house of Givenchy crafted for Chalamet.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Feb. 2024
  • For the outing, Hadid slipped into more haute couture pieces, this time from the brand's fall 2021 collection.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 July 2022
  • Janelle Monáe went full solar flare in a Vera Wang haute couture vivid orange skirt with a black bustier.
    Maane Khatchatourian, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Back in Hollywood, Elle Fanning was busy pulling out the vintage haute couture.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 2 May 2022
  • Hanae Mori, the first Asian fashion designer to break into the exclusive world of haute couture, has died at aged 96.
    Oscar Holland, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Working during the rise of haute couture, both Sargent and his subjects were living through a new dawn of fashion.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Rafael Gomes’s mind, to have a haute couture exhibition.
    Erik Maza, Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2023
  • He’s poised to take his place as creative director of the haute couture house Orsino, following the death of its eponymous founder.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023
  • On their wedding day, Hyland wore not one but two haute couture gowns designed by Vera Wang.
    Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Shalom Harlow walks the runway at Mugler’s haute couture spring/summer 2023 show.
    Stephanie Hirschmiller, ELLE, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Stars sauntered in sequins, hoofed it in haute couture and posed in polished ensembles.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2022
  • During this week’s episode, the queens must turn home decor into haute couture while actress Janelle Monae serves as special guest judge.
    al, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Not the regalia which has and always will be central to Indigenous culture, but haute couture.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • To channel the jaw-dropping all-pink look Anne Hathaway sported at Valentino’s haute couture show back in June, look no further.
    Jaimie Potters, ELLE, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The fashion house teased Qualley's runway look — and the haute couture show — on Instagram a few days ago with a video starring the actress and friend of the house Naomi Campbell.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Pascal Chevallier Leave it to a Dior executive to have shades that look like haute couture!
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Stephanie Hsu’s hot pink strapless Valentino haute couture gown featured an enormous, full skirt.
    Maane Khatchatourian, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • And the wives of politicians were asked to appear at state dinners in Mexican folk costumes instead of their usual haute couture gowns.
    New York Times, 9 July 2022

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