couturiere

She was a successful couturiere for over 30 years.

The year marked a resurgence of interest in the couturiere's legacy.

An immediate sympathy and attraction occurs between the 'couturiere' and the composer.

A couturiere was ushered into Catherine's bedroom.

The couturiere is the preferred choice."

Fashion and chic-a famous couturiere named Coco Chanel.

By 1919, Chanel was registered as a couturiere and established her maison de couture at 31 rue Cambon.

An example is the famous dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, who became Mrs. Lincoln's couturiere.

But if there is one person capable of striking fear into my heart, it is my couturiere, Favrielle nó Eglantine.

The black-lacquer-and-eggshell set was commissioned in 1930 by Madeleine Vionnet, the French couturiere who invented the bias cut in the 1930's.

Finally the couturiere's 1932 autobiography, Discretions and Indiscretions, was republished under the title A Woman of Temperament.

Indeed, because of the patience and time needed for custom work, many well-known tailoring operations, like Rosette Couturiere, on West 71th Street, no longer do it.

After opening boutiques in Paris and Deauville, Coco eventually became a licenced couturiere (dress designer & maker) in 1919.

"The typical American female is sure that she has genius as a couturiere as an interior decorator, as a gourmet cook, and, always, as a courtesan.

'WANTED, at once, a young lady, pretty, tall (good figure essential), as "model" in a showroom of a well-known Paris couturiere.

In the film, set during World War I, Vivien Leigh plays a couturiere and double agent who lives in Stockholm and works for the French.

The draped silk jersey dresses, her specialty during more than 50 years as a couturiere at the head of her own fashion house, immediately suggest the fluid robes of classical Greek statues.

His grandmother was the Edwardian couturiere Lady Duff-Gordon, otherwise known by her professional name Lucile, and who was a survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster.

And in 1938 Jean-Michel Frank, the French decorator, commissioned Salvador Dali to design a sofa shaped like the mouth of Mae West for the showroom of Schiaparelli, the Paris couturiere.

As 160 guests gathered on wooden chairs that looked as if they had come from a schoolhouse, the bride walked down the long, sandy driveway in a tiara and a poufy, bouncy knee-length dress designed by Mary Adams, a downtown couturiere.

The dialogue between Dame Maggie Smith and Elizabeth McGovern in which the couturiere was name-dropped intrigued female viewers of the hit series, reportedy inspiring a nearly 50% sales hike at Lucile, the relaunched label headed by Camilla Blois.

Two hours earlier Kilcoole's premiere couturiere, Aisling Senungatuck, had arrived with the gown she had created for Yana - rabbit hides crocheted together with woollen yarn in a long, panelled design with a flared skirt, scooped neck and long sleeves.

Ennosuke, whom purists attack for occasional departures from pristine Kabuki, with laser lighting, synthesizer music and couturiere-(Continued on Page 46) designed costumes, explained recently: "The future of Kabuki should be in trying to please the public, just as O-Kuni did when she started it as a popular art for commoners."