It was also a return to certain obsolete dressmaking techniques, which the seamstresses in his atelier were obliged to learn all over again.

Galanos is a master of dressmaking techniques, enabling him to use bias cuts in a perky, contemporary way.

Like a master craftsman, Mr. Galanos is constantly seeking new ways to achieve different effects, to extend the range of dressmaking techniques.

There is no ostentatious display of dressmaking technique, no fussy details.

Thousands of dresses are paraded by hundreds of designers who rework old dressmaking techniques in wistful new ways.

Rounded skirts made of petals that opened like flowers when the wearer moved were little miracles of dressmaking technique.

His invention is endless and his clothes are saved from vulgarity by sophisticated dressmaking techniques.

It's not planned to illuminate any arcane fashion strain, though specialists may spot some dressmaking techniques they were not aware of.

It was one of many delicately wrought dressmaking techniques that make Valentino's ready-to-wear look expensive.

Lacking dressmaking technique, he sketched ideas for his staff to execute.