haute couture

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   trend-setting fashions

   Synonymshigh fashionhigh style

   Broaderfashion

Questions about haute couture

What does haute couture mean?

haute couture means "trend-setting fashions".

What is another word for haute couture?

Close synonyms include high fashion, high style. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is haute couture a common word?

haute couture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.