Couturiere

The couturiere was most exacting with her tape while she kept up a steady flow of compliments concerning Juliana’s trim waist, full bosom, and long line of leg for one as petite as she.

A couturiere wearing a competitor’s gown was like a brewer drinking the ale made in another distillery, an act of betrayal.

Madame du Sey announced that they were not to see a couturier, but a couturiere!

She’s bringing in a couturiere from Paris to design our gowns.

As the couturiere pricked the needle into her upper thigh, she murmured, “This little puzzle could make the evening much, much more fun than I anticipated.”

Elsa Schiaparelli was another case of a couturiere with a transatlantic life who ended up spending most of the war in New York, leaving her Paris firm in the hands of trusted managers. Similarly, Bruyère, another well-esteemed Paris couturiere, resettled in New York for the war.