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The official criteria, designed in 1945, originally implied presenting a certain number of original models each season, created by a permanent designer, handmade and bespoke models, a minimum number of people employed in the workshop and a minimum number of patterns "presented usually in Paris". [1]
This is a list of notable fashion designers sorted by nationality. It includes designers of haute couture and ready-to-wear. For haute couture only, see the list of grands couturiers. For footwear designers, see the list of footwear designers.
Haute couture (/ ˌ oʊ t k uː ˈ tj ʊər / ⓘ; French pronunciation: [ot kutyʁ]; French for 'high sewing', 'high dressmaking') is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted high-end fashion design. The term haute couture generally refers to a specific type of upper garment common in Europe during the 16th to the 18th century, or to the upper ...
Charles Frederick Worth (13 October 1825 – 10 March 1895) was an English fashion designer who founded the House of Worth, one of the foremost fashion houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is considered by many fashion historians to be the father of haute couture. [4] [5] Worth is also credited with revolutionising the business of ...
A. A.P.C. Aadnevik; Reem Acra; Agnès b. Aimé Leon Dore; Akris; Azzedine Alaïa; Eman AlAjlan; Reem Alasadi; Alexander McQueen (fashion house) Alfred Dunhill Limited
In 1970, the designer unveiled his first haute couture collection as head designer of Jean-Louis Scherrer (a couture house that eventually fell out of favor over back and forth financing and ...
Madame Grès (1903–1993), also known as Alix Barton and Alix, was a leading French couturier and costume designer, founder of haute couture fashion house Grès as well as the associated Parfums Grès. [1]
PARIS, Feb 19 (Reuters) - German haute-couture designer Karl Lagerfeld, artistic director at Chanel and an icon of the global fashion industry for over half a century, has died, a source at the ...