Plural of 'couturière'; multiple female fashion designers, especially those creating haute couture garments.
French plural of 'couturière,' formed by adding '-s' to the French feminine singular; entered English as plural form in fashion terminology.
The presence of 'couturieres' in English shows how we've borrowed not just words, but entire gendered pairs from French, treating them as specialized fashion vocabulary.
Plural of couturière; perpetuates the gendered taxonomy that segregated fashion labor by sex and status, with women's work in garment-making rendered secondary to male 'designers.'
Use 'fashion designers' or refer to individuals by name rather than gendered collective terms.
["fashion designers","designers"]
Thousands of unnamed women executed haute couture designs; the gendered language erased their creative agency and labor.
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