Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An establishment engaged in couture.
  • noun One who designs for or owns such an establishment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun someone who designs clothing.

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  • noun a person who designs haute couture
  • noun a company that is owned by, or employs such a person; a fashion house

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who designs clothing

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, dressmaker, from Old French cousturier, from cousture, sewing; see couture.]

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From French couturier.

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Examples

  • Unlikely to find it in beverages, Edgar looked at several other industries, including fragrance and luxury goods, briefly steering Seagram into a stake in French couturier Herve Leger.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • Unlikely to find it in beverages, Edgar looked at several other industries, including fragrance and luxury goods, briefly steering Seagram into a stake in French couturier Herve Leger.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • Unlikely to find it in beverages, Edgar looked at several other industries, including fragrance and luxury goods, briefly steering Seagram into a stake in French couturier Herve Leger.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • Unlikely to find it in beverages, Edgar looked at several other industries, including fragrance and luxury goods, briefly steering Seagram into a stake in French couturier Herve Leger.

    Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010

  • And how would you look if your couturier were the church thrift shop?

    Those People 2009

  • A couturier is a person involved in the clothing fashion industry who makes original garments to order for private clients.

    On supporting the troops M@ 2009

  • A glib and facile couturier, Mr. Lagerfeld is not unlike Chanel herself, talking a mile a minute, tossing off aphorisms and, as Alicia Drake revealed in her account of the Lagerfeld-Yves Saint Laurent rivalry, "The Beautiful Fall" 2006, not averse to embellishing his past.

    The Enduring Coco Chanel Laura Jacobs 2011

  • She named a French American couturier, Oleg Cassini, to create her entire wardrobe, which combined French style with an American pedigree.

    Dressing down the first lady Post 2011

  • If you were the nephew of legendary couturier Hubert de Givenchy and you created jewelry hotly rumored to be favored by Queen Rania of Jordan and her like (thus guaranteeing that every wealthy woman with pretensions to immaculate style would also want a piece of the action), you wouldn't need to sully your hands with the works of Madison Avenue either.

    Coolhunter: Taffin Tina Gaudoin 2010

  • She acquired a fabulous couturier collection while there; when she and Hugh ran short of money late in life, she began surreptitiously selling off the clothes.

    A Very English Controversialist Norman Stone 2011

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  • a designer and producer of fashion garments (from the French couture, meaning dressmaking).

    October 31, 2007