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So, thinking about couture in the constructs of today, one would think about those designers
that I mentioned earlier, Chanel, Givenchy, Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, and look
at their collections that they parade down runways twice a year for spring and fall and
think to themselves, 'what the hell is going on?' 'Why would anybody ever think to make
these things?' and 'where are they going?' and 'why are they being made?' Well, couture
is basically, well, it translates to high dress making or even high art. High art, why
would make an installation in a room where it's a bowl of water and three spoons? It's
this huge conceptual idea. Who knows! Because it's high art, because it's the artist's vision.
Those fashion designers are artists and they have visions and fantasies that they are living
out through their materials of garments and taking sculpture into the realm of garment
makings and taking, I would say, conceptualism, and conceptual art, mixing it with sculpture
and putting it onto live people and I think that is the reason why couture gets made on
a constant basis. Not even when it's being ordered by a specific person, just because
the designers are utilizing that avenue to express who they are so they can sell "ready-to-wear"
in a different sort of a way, or set themselves apart as an individual who sells a specific
style.