Blog Post #3

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• Haute couture-the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing made to fit the customer.
• Haute couture is very expensive; therefore, only a few thousand people in the world can afford to wear it, such as celebrities.
• This proves to show that fashion can sometimes determine your economic standing in society.
• Because high fashion is quite expensive, many haute couture boutiques are losing money on the sale of their merchandise because many people cannot afford it.
• Fashion shows are created to show the creations of the new fashions made by the couture designers. These shows definitely help to sell these clothes.
• The world's most famous fashion shows usually occur in Milan, New York, and Paris.
• In the nineteenth century people that wanted to present themselves like they were standing economically high in society; therefore, they hired skilled dressmakers to reproduce the original haute couture fashions without paying the actual price.
• With people paying less money for replicas of expensive fashion, that is how "knock-off" things came to be.

3 questions:
How do fashion shows affect the business of haute couture clothing?
Why are the most famous fashion shows occurring in Milan, New York, and Paris?
How often were the skilled dressmakers hired to reproduce the haute couture fashions?