High-End Garments Quotes

Whatever show is on, I dress in that designer's clothes. Some of them were totally unwearable.

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me.

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

My mum was very glamorous, an incredible seamstress. She made up those Vogue, Givenchy and Yves St. Laurent patterns they used to sell. It was church couture, darling! Because my dad was a pastor, she could get away with more than other women. Her skirts were that bit tighter.

Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasn't always translated to the streets.

To be a couture designer is not only to create dresses but to adapt your line to your private customers. It is why couture is expensive. You are like a doctor.

For me, a Thom Browne suit is an investment.

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

I have nothing against glamorous dressing.