Haute couture refers to exclusive, high-quality clothing made to order for individual clients. To be considered haute couture, a designer must have a workshop in Paris employing at least 15 people full-time to create customized outfits for both daytime and evening wear, with multiple fittings for each client. While the French government promotes strict standards for haute couture, some designers have more loosely used the term to describe their high fashion creations.

2. Handmade's Tale

5. Members of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture

7. From Idea to Design

8. First Draft

9. Building the Toile

10. Piecing it Together

11. No Margin for Error

12. Down to the Wire

13. A Perfect Fit

14. Voilà!

16. No clothing is more exquisitely crafted – or more expensive – than haute couture Every piece of haute couture clothing is the product of hours upon hours of manual labor.

17. Middle & L ow-end market Case study: Highsun String & Cloth Market

19. How to make custom-made clothes Choose the style you want Buy the cloth you need Measure your size Bring the size to the tailor

20. Who go to the tailors The elderly: few options in the ready-to wear market F emale: critical Foreigners : taller and stronger

21. Tailors Most come from Zhejiang province . Have more than ten years experience . Do not communicate with the customers directly . They just provide manual work.

25. 1950s and 60s with most tailor shops and all ages of consumers development of garment industry people's living standards influx of Hong Kong and Taiwan clothing clothing market became very active Not so much requirements but some main type

34. Make the clothes more neat and smooth back

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