Plural of 'couture'; high fashion garments, exclusive designer clothing, or the art of high-end fashion design and tailoring.
From French 'couture' meaning sewing or dressmaking, derived from Latin 'consuere' (to sew together); entered English in the 19th century as Paris became the fashion capital.
Couture literally means 'sewing,' but it came to represent the most exclusive, expensive fashion in the world—essentially, the French took their word for stitching and made it mean 'the opposite of mass-produced.'
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