I’ve heard that I could be facing Randy Couture. That would a great.
Model S has, really, the ready-to-wear elements. Gen 3 has the opportunity to be more couture.
I always used to love couture because it was more theatrical than the runways. The runways always felt more like part of the machine.
Lesley Manville comes at ‘funny’ from a totally different direction in ‘Phantom Thread,’ using snootiness and froideur. The effect of her performance – as the difficult manager of her difficult brother’s couture dress business – stems in part from the chill she puts into her line readings.
Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.
The habit of breaking up one’s colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism – Couture advocates it in a little book called ‘Causeries d’Atelier’ written about 1860 – it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.
I’d say I play on old world couture as opposed to modern day bridal; there’s something very timeless and appealing in that.
The detail that goes into couture stuff is insane. Everything is handmade – every sequin, every double stitch.
Dior Couture is like art – they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother’s elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has.
You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it’s important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
Yeah, that’s what I’m working for. The couture house of the future.
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