high fashion

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   trend-setting fashions

   Synonymshaute couturehigh style

   Broaderfashion

Questions about high fashion

What does high fashion mean?

high fashion means "trend-setting fashions".

What is another word for high fashion?

Close synonyms include haute couture, 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 high fashion a common word?

high fashion 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.