The fittings, especially for couture clothes in Paris, can be tedious, she said.

And their impact will affect more than the few thousand women around the world who wear couture clothes, with prices running easily into five figures.

After an intermission, the models showed the couture clothes in a more conventional manner.

He was determined last season to win acceptance for his couture clothes in Paris.

I think if you own a business and you spend $100,000 on couture clothes but lay off your employees, that's true decadence.

At the judging, the girls have to walk in both pret-a-porter and haute couture clothes.

And the couture clothes are following these lines.

"I make couture clothes for very rich and thin ladies," he said.

But I've been exposed to so much now from traveling the world and seeing couture clothes.

The number of women who will buy and wear couture clothes is, of course, limited.