Haute couture 

refers to the designing, creating, and selling exclusive custom-made, high fashion
women's clothes.
The term "haute couture" comes from the French language.Haute means "high" or
"elegant", Couture means "sewing" or "dressmaking".
A business must be a member of the Syndical Chamber for Haute Couture in Paris, which is
regulated by the French Department of Industry, in order to be called a haute couture house.
To become a member a company must employ at least 15 people and present their collections twice a
year. Each presentation must include at least 35 separate outfits for day and evening wear.
Each year, in January and July, Paris hosts about 30 shows during the haute couture and 30 men’s
wear fashion shows and again in March and October over a hundred women’s ready-to-wear fashion
shows.
Since 1982, the Federation has been using prestigious places located in the very heart of Paris to
present the shows: the Cour Carrée and Cour Napoléon in the Louvre, then the Jardin des Tuileries
and later the restored Cour Carrée.
In early 2007, there are ten official haute couture member houses. Some of the most famous are Coco
Chanel, Christian Dior, and Givenchy.
Haute couture clothing usually takes from 100 to 400 hours to make one dress, costing from $26,000
to over $100,000. A tailored suit starts at $16,000, an evening gown at $60,000.
Today only 2,000 women in the world buy couture clothes; 60% are American. Only 200 are regular
customers. Often, designers will loan clothes to movie stars or other public figures for publicity.
Originally referred to French fashion and in France, now the term Haute Couture is also used loosely
to describe all high-fashion custom-fitted clothing.

60,s fashion

The 1960s featured a number of diverse trends. It was a decade that broke many fashion traditions,
mirroring social movements during the period. In the middle of the decade, culottes, box-
shaped PVCdresses and go-go boots were popular. The widely popular bikini came into fashion in 1963
after being featured in the musical Beach Party.

Mary Quant invented the mini-skirt, and Jackie Kennedy introduced the pillbox hat,[1] both becoming

extremely popular. False eyelshes were worn by women throughout the 1960s, and their hairstyles were
a variety of lengths and styles.[2] While focusing on colours and tones, accessories were less of an
importance during the sixties. People were dressing in psychedelic prints, highlighter colours, and
mismatched patterns.[3] The hippiemovement late in the decade also exerted a strong influence on ladies'
clothing styles, including bell-bottom jeans, tie-dye, and batik fabrics, as well as paisley prints.

In the early to mid-1960s, the London Modernists known as the Mods were shaping and defining popular
fashion for young British men while the trends for both sexes changed more frequently than ever before in
the history of fashion and would continue to do so throughout the decade