Ousseynou Couture Quotes

I have a very haute couture way of working. ~ John Galliano

I haven't placed any limits on myself ~ Randy Couture

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture. ~ Thomas Couture

A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff. ~ Nina Garcia

Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn't look expensive. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you. ~ Isaac Mizrahi

A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time. ~ Randy Couture

I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics. ~ Ines De La Fressange

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture. ~ Pierre Cardin

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. ~ Thomas Couture

I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast. ~ Tommy Hilfiger

If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good. ~ Randy Couture

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable. ~ Christian Lacroix

You're nervous because you're afraid of the outcome. Accept the worst outcome ... You'll be free & fight like you're able to. ~ Randy Couture

I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap. ~ Randy Couture

On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre. ~ Andre Leon Talley

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet. ~ Diablo Cody

I love the training, love the competition, and I still feel like I'm progressing and getting better as a fighter. ~ Randy Couture

Cheap as chips, cheap as chips, it's a British expression. There's no couture in their darling. ~ Jojo Moyes

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you. ~ Randy Couture

Learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, and go out and compete again. That's the mark of championship spirit. ~ Randy Couture

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately. ~ Edith Head

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962. ~ Hamish Bowles

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm constantly correcting young people and fashion students in this nation when they say "Well, I do couture." By definition, you don't. You have to be licensed by the government of France to do couture. So don't use that term. You can say that you do one-of-a-kind, you can say it's custom, but you can't say it's couture - because it's inaccurate. ~ Tim Gunn

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism. ~ Andre Leon Talley

Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it. ~ Yves Saint-Laurent

In some way I felt I was never good enough until I started fighting. I was always striving to show my worth and value. ~ Randy Couture

I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture. ~ Olivier Theyskens

Snowflakes are drops of rain clothed in the highest haute couture. ~ Corina Abdulahm Negura

I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach. I'm always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that's something I can always go back to and enjoy doing. ~ Randy Couture

The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to. ~ Randy Couture

I hate the terminology of 'costume' because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture. ~ Christian Siriano

'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do. ~ Randy Couture

After I knock out Randy Couture, I'll fight for the heavyweight title, the real heavyweight boxing title in October or November, come back and fight in the UFC in January or February. It doesn't matter, I'm a two sport athlete. The oldest man to ever do that. ~ James Toney

My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The figures I paint exist in their own esoteric realm and time, and each painting offers a glimpse into their anomalous world. ~ Lori Earley

A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape. ~ Randy Couture

That's because you have couture bollocks. ~ E.J. Wood

Aurore had a well-maintained body that met the basic requirements of haute couture. ~ Suzanne Stroh

«All the Amazon guys around Seattle were also aware of the trend. They all knew that, someday, European haute couture would sell online. The problem was that feat couldn't be done by anybody from Amazon. Because Amazon guys were hacker geeks and cheesy hicks. Amazon had been invented to sell sci-fi books. The least chic thing in the world.
The European couture biz would never go anywhere near a dorky sci-fi geek like Jeff Bezos. As for Jeff himself, Jeff would much rather conquer outer space with his private rocket than ever dress the First Lady of France.» ~ Bruce Sterling

Live for the moment. For tomorrow you could be dead. ~ Chris O'Guinn

The city, compelling as it was, felt like a glamorous couture dress I had bought in haste but that didn't quite fit me after all. ~ Jojo Moyes

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you. ~ Nick Frost

The look is elegant and sacrilegious and makes me feel sacred and immoral.
Haute couture and getting hauter. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

I have a couture body. ~ Carine Roitfeld

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day. ~ Hedi Slimane

I really love Juicy Couture - it's young and fresh. ~ Dionne Bromfield

It's horrible!" Alice cries. "They want to kill us!" Her eyes narrow. "And Shanika's got my Candy Couture bag, that bitch! Drive!" She says to the driver. "Run them over! ~ Kirsty McKay

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear. ~ Ashley Madekwe

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future. ~ John Galliano

The pret-a-porter collection will be the same as couture in essence: I love luxury, beautiful products, handmade with care, but at more accessible prices. ~ Stephane Rolland

EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes. ~ Donatella Versace

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching. ~ Linda Evangelista

After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team. ~ Jimmy Choo

For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic. ~ Giorgio Armani

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams. ~ Alain Wertheimer

I've sold everything from fashion, make-up, couture magazines, radio, reality television, movies. There isn't a thing I haven't sold, including Tampax. You name it. ~ Janice Dickinson

I know quite a few eco designers who build dresses out of old couture gowns. They disassemble, 'upcycle,' and reuse them in extraordinary ways. To me, that's a sustainable way of doing things. ~ Suzy Amis

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing. ~ Beyonce Knowles

I love cashmere. For casual, I like Juicy Couture. I love the beading in Badgley Mischka. I like Dolce & Gabbana. There's such a lot to choose from. ~ Sasha Cohen

Mr. Couture is not an American citizen. He is from Montreal. It is a large city, about the size of Boston, in that very large country just north of here. You may have heard of it. They play hockey. - ~ Sylvain Neuvel

Fashion is so mass-produced now; I hope there will come a refocus on how people see couture. And I would also hope for a new focus on the craft. ~ Raf Simons

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I've also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste. ~ Stephane Rolland

I always used to love couture because it was more theatrical than the runways. The runways always felt more like part of the machine. ~ Lily Cole

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.' ~ Anna Deavere Smith

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. ~ Zoe Kravitz

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay. ~ Jimmy Choo

Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it. ~ Amanda Harlech

In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his American dream become a nightmare when he's ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo. Gilvarry nails the couture scene, but Boy's rough journey from Manolo to Gitmo is no joke. ~ Andrew Abrahams

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. ~ Elizabeth Jagger

I stumbled upon the 3x1 shop because it's a few doors up from the 'V' magazine offices on Mercer. The store is intense: They can take your measurements, and the sewers are right there behind glass making what amounts to a couture pair of jeans. ~ Derek Blasberg

He wore a tailor's masterpiece of obsidian fabric so expensive that it would've been personally offended to have been referred to as a 'black suit'. It was a really nice black suit. ~ Mandy Ashcraft

The Gucci woman can be the equestrian woman, the woman in the suit, the woman in the flowy bohemian dress, or the couture woman. ~ Blake Lively

I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the construction, along with the story behind it, make couture desirable to consumers looking for something that cannot be mass-produced. ~ Carmen Busquets

The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. ~ Lady Gaga

The fall couture presentations in Paris are usually my favorite moment on the fashion calendar: beautiful weather, a busy rather than manic schedule, and, let's face it, seeing the artistry, the embroidery, and handmade magnificence that goes into every dress. ~ Elisabeth Von Thurn Und Taxis

I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think? ~ Imelda May

Love is the most precious gift in life. Be grateful for all the love and support you get from your parents, your family and friends. Because nothing is as precious as receiving true and devoted love" - Monsieur Jac Couture ~ Lily Amis

Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In the beginning, I couldn't react. I was just working like a machine, because I wanted to make the house happy. ~ Riccardo Tisci

I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies. ~ Suzy Menkes

My own show with Sterling Ruby, for example, seems like such a huge disconnection from Dior couture, but then I think, yeah, in both collections there was a very strong focus on the human hand and the actual work of people making garments. So in that sense, they were completely related. But I didn't realize that during the process. ~ Raf Simons

I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture. ~ Christian Dior

Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it. ~ Alber Elbaz

Do you think I would look good in leather?"
His lips lifted in a half smile, "I'm sure they make a bikini top and thong that would be perfect."
Her laugh deepened, "But the hard part will be convincing me to wear it." Savannah weighed her hands in the air up and down like a scale, "Sexy couture in public, absolutely. Trashy, revealing ho
not so much. ~ Beth Mikell

Sure, we had to be skinny. I lived on Diet Coke and apples for two years. For the couture, we had to get up at 4 am to be sewn into the clothes and there was huge pressure to be thin. But I made a million dollars by the time I was 20, I bought a town house in Manhattan and put myself through Columbia. Does that make me a victim? ~ Abbey Lee Kershaw

I've had to wonder if people like Shina and other spawns of third world immigrants have felt the need to purchase so much expensive couture in order to feel acceptable and insulated enough in (white) American upper-class society. But why purchase so much costly shit when you're not even that rich or ever going to wear half of what your husband has had to pay for anyway? At least more upper-class white women in America have had better things to spend their money on, like Botox, fillers, and online dating sites. ~ Jean Bergman

Suddenly, [Cecilia Washburn] was getting a lot of attention from her friends," Pabst explained to the jury. "Attention from the dean of the pharmacy school ... .Attention by Dean Charles Couture, the then dean of students; by the Crime Victim Advocate office; by the nurse, [Claire] Francoeur ... .Miss Washburn got attention by the investigator and by the prosecutor. Her regret was replaced by sympathy, attention, and support, and a little bit of drama, and a little bit of celebrity ... .Her regret, fueled by drama, became purpose. She received a new public - and important - identity: victim. ~ Jon Krakauer

Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffocating ourselves a wee bit?' he asked, placing a hand on the top of her corset. 'A bit of a crush in the vestibule, here, Mamma! If we start crying, there'll be an explosion. Never mind, I'll be there to collect the bits
just like an antiquary.'
'Now, there's the language of true French gallantry,' murmured Madame Vauquer in an aside to Madame Couture. ~ Honore De Balzac

Elizabeth stood in a model pose, whip thin, with a face beside which the faces of angels are coarse and unappealing, in clothes of rags needing to be hauled off and burned, yet somehow arranged into punk couture. Her black pageboy haircut peeked from under a cloche that appeared to have survived the Crash of '29. She wore a torn black leotard under a skirt of gossamer net, and the exact shoes Boris Karloff had worn in Frankenstein. Two large lean hounds, one black, one black and white, sported, lunged, and whirled around her.
Dave inhaled sharply, in both love and despair. ~ Jim Morris

Don't say you don't know! It's because of Kim. Meaning there's no photo that I would have put up by myself, or next to one of my smarty friends, that would have got that amount of likes. So now you take this photo that has that amount of likes, and it has a flower wall from the same guy who does the Lanvin shows, and it has a couture Givenchy dress and Givenchy tuxedo in it. That's the point. Now the thing that is the most popular is also communicating the highest level of creativity. The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write. ~ Kanye West

She had a woman's swagger at twelve-and-a-half. Hair: strawberry-blonde, and I vaguely recall a daisy in the crook of her ear. She was an inch taller than me, two with the ponytail; smooth cheeks and darling brown eyes that marbled in luscious contrast with her magnolia skin; cream, melting to peach, melting to pink. She beamed like a cherub without the baby fat; a tender neck; pristine lips that would never part for a dirty word. Her body
of no interest to me at the time
was wrapped from neck to toes with home-made footie pajamas, the kind they make for toddlers, but I didn't laugh; the girl filled that silly one-piece ensemble as if it were couture. ~ Jake Vander Ark

You don't like my dress?"
The vines of Reed's couture streched toward the tutor, the rose's petal-mouths chomping.
It isn't that, Your Imperial Viciousness. The earthlings will not understand you. Not understanding you, they will be frightened and send their petty authorities to apprehend you."
Ha!"
Of course they'll fail. That isn't the point. But you'll have to wast engery dealing with them instead of concentrating on your niece's destruction. I doubt that the way to achive your aim is to spread your strength across many fronts so that, when it's time to battle Alyss, you many not be at the peak of your powers. Your niece, I gather, shouldn't be underestimated."
Vollrath hadn't graduated from the Tutor Corps for nothing. "I don't like when sound reasoning counters my wishes," Redd hissed. ~ Frank Beddor