couturiere

The Chaney and Vaughan books provide documentation of her long affair with Baron Hans Gunther von Dincklage, a German agent during the war, with Mr. Vaughan, who has previously written about war-time spies, suggesting the couturiere was a Nazi intelligence operative.

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This blouse is a direct descendant of the signature chiffon handkerchief dresses made famous in the early 1900s by the famous French couturiere Madeleine Vionnet.

The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

This blouse is a direct descendant of the signature chiffon handkerchief dresses made famous in the early 1900s by the famous French couturiere Madeleine Vionnet.

The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

This blouse is a direct descendant of the signature chiffon handkerchief dresses made famous in the early 1900s by the famous French couturiere Madeleine Vionnet.

The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

-- Holly BaileyFashion: Top of the CenturyAn iconoclastic visionary, Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel, the French couturiere who died in 1971, defined 20th-century haute couture early in the 1920s.

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But if there is one person capable of striking fear into my heart, it is my couturiere, Favrielle nó Eglantine.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

I have a couturiere, sharp-tongued and gifted, who was a failed adept, flawed by a scar that rendered her unfit by the tenets of the Night Court; fifteen years or more, it might have taken Favrielle nó Eglantine to make her marque on the commissions her Dowayne allowed her — meanwhile, her youth fled and her genius gone to make the marques of her erstwhile companions.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Mrs. Virginia's couturiere had her photograph and her colouring (represented in actual paints) and a figure made up from exact measurements; and so every one of the garments would fit her perfectly.

The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

Mrs. Smith, who is modelled on the lines of Venus, bares her back at the dictates of some obscure couturiere in Paris, and the result gives a certain aesthetic pleasure.

Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913

Philadelphia, had been ransacked; the smartest modiste in Martinsburg had trimmed the hat with many yards of tulle and freighted it with pink roses; the smartest couturiere in Martinsburg had created that wonderful blue chintz frock, with ribbons woven through mazes of flounces; the last touch was my mother's -- the plait of hair, done so masterfully that even the weight of the great blue bow could not bend it.

David Malcolm Nelson Lloyd 1903