Haute Quotes

#1. For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive.

Christian Lacroix

#2. I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.

Suzy Menkes

#3. In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean haute cuisine. In London, it's a contemporary French restaurant that I've developed with a U.K. influence and my French know-how.

Alain Ducasse

#4. Aurore had a well-maintained body that met the basic requirements of haute couture.

Suzanne Stroh

#5. I don't care if you're doing haute cuisine or burgers and pizza, just do it right.

Grant Achatz

#6. The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials ... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises ... to finding a new form of expression.

Jean-Claude Ellena

#7. You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#8. Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#9. Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

Christian Lacroix

#10. I think perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of fear.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. 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.

Trinny Woodall

#12. Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us.

Christian Dior

#13. My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.

Lisa Gardner

#14. The look is elegant and sacrilegious and makes me feel sacred and immoral.
Haute couture and getting hauter.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. The wine they drink in Paradise
They make in Haute Lorraine.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#17. Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

Hedi Slimane

#18. With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there.

Patrick Demarchelier

#19. I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

Valentino Garavani

#20. Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

Olivier Theyskens

#21. The cucina casalinga and cucina povera are the new haute cuisines.

Loretta Gatto-White

#22. Establishing good habits means that you use your willpower reserves for the truly important stuff.

Carrie Willard

#23. So there I was eating haute cuisine in a mobile home. He cooked for me as seduction, a courtship, so that I'd never again be impressed with a man who simply took me out to dinner. And I fell in love with him over a deer's liver.

Kristin Kimball

#24. We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

Alain Wertheimer

#25. I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

Anna Deavere Smith

#26. Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

Robert Anton Wilson

#27. The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#28. If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

Macklemore

#29. I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

Orville Redenbacher

#30. I have a very haute couture way of working.

John Galliano

#31. I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.

Ines De La Fressange

#32. He looks expensive. In a vintage way. He has a good smile. It's kind of crooked.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#33. I want people in all the government agencies to be communicating with people because for me, we're in an era - which didn't exist before - where you can have instant access to information, and I want to see my government be more transparent.

Hillary Clinton

#34. Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

Hannah More

#35. One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.

Houari Boumediene

#36. sight." "Yeah?" That blue fire returned

Jude Deveraux