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title: "Couturier"
description: "A couturier is a designer or house that creates original garments to order for private clients; a woman designer is a couturière."
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url: https://teazle.art/glossary/couturier
published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
author: "The Teazle editors"
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# Couturier

*A couturier is a designer or house that creates original garments to order for private clients; a woman designer is a couturière.*

In French, a couturier is someone who designs and makes made-to-measure clothes. In English it usually means the head of a couture house, from Worth and Vionnet to the present.


## Sources

1. [Couturier (AAT 300025198)](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300025198). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
2. [Couturier](https://Www.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Couturier). Wikipedia
3. [Couturier (Q3501317)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3501317). Wikidata

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