couture

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the designing, making, and selling of expensive fashionable clothing that is made by hand (= not using a machine, factory, etc.), usually for a particular customer, and is not sold in shops, also used to refer to the clothes themselves:

The designer is a relative newcomer to the world of couture.

The actress wore Chanel couture on the Oscars red carpet.

a couture show/collection/house