If the veil with stones or brocade is back as well as the pearls on the dresses and the décolletage, the fur don’t leave - UNFORTUNATELY – anymore the podiums, from a collar to a coat, it plays the card of the color yellow, beige or red. Outfits which costs more than several tens of thousands euros. Indeed, we wanted to know more about that fashion microcosm, how it works and its clients

The very select circle of the "haute couture" house is covered by some rules. A house which wants to start must have a sponsor and its case is dealt by the "couture commission" which meets every year to study the candidatures. This commission depends itself of the ministry of industry. It was the decree of 1945 which controlled the haute couture candidates: number of workers, rhythm of the fashion shows. Since 2001, le minister of industry made those criteria more flexible considered as too severe for the times we are living in. However not every house can proclaim itself haute couture !
This status exists only in Paris while the other capitals receive only the ready-to-wear collections. Each season, you can count other invited members. These are often creators which are challenging for the title Haute Couture and which presents their Couture collection during years before receiving the holy Grail of fashion.nce des membres invités. Ce sont souvent des créateurs qui prétendent au titre de Haute Couture et qui présentent leur collection Couture pendant des années avant de recevoir le St Graal de la mode.

As for some of the professions, the houses are bound by professional secrecy and we can’t know the name of these prestigious clients. At best, we can imagine the capacity of the bank account… these few clients make live the select industry. In particular, they enable to make exist a craftwork which needs exceptional skills with hundreds of working hours with hands for each piece ! This tailor made work implies fittings for a perfect result. In 2014, even the houses go to the country of their clients.
This luxury handicraft always make people dream. It is one the few fields which highlights the unique know-how of the small hands, embroiderers and other craft persons. And even if fashion has been moving in other cities for a few years, Milan, New York, London, Paris remains thanks to its great crafts person the only capital of the Haute Couture.