Haute Couture Clients

[FashionPower]

294.- Europe - Russia - Kristina Shcherbinina

Adult content actress. Don't ask me how she can afford couture because I have no idea.

Credits: instagram.com / x.com / vogue.com / wwd.com

The first outfit is literally the definition of CHANEL couture status symbol customer: styling completely replicated from runway with a mini Kelly or any other quota bag from Hermes. Those white tights are such an overkill. That nightmare ballerina collection from Virginie was abysmal but apparently it was very well received from the customers.
The second look I can get on board with it: I couldn't believe it was from that hideous studio first couture show cause it's actually a very decent dress from recent CHANEL standards. Wish she had removed the belt though.

 

[Maayan]

Meanwhile:

 

[MagFan]

How soon we will see another Dior client selling her collection while it's hot
Surprisingly the only MGC's banal dress was not the cheapest

 

[Creative]

But that’s absurd. Go get it done as a HC client and you get it brand new and way cheaper

 

[Lola701]

But that’s absurd. Go get it done as a HC client and you get it brand new and way cheaper

While I agree with you, you don’t just wake up one morning, go to Dior to have a clochard dress made like that. This is the original so it has a value and considering that it was preserved with museum quality storage, why not.

I was listening to a Podcast by Mouna today. She said that indeed she is selling because she cannot fit them, most of them were in boxes, worn one time or never ever (I assume her Bohan and Ferre since she was married and they are relatively sexy) and she touched on the prices.
She said that it has become super expensive even for her as she likes very special pieces. That back in the day, she used to buy 10 couture looks per year and nowadays it’s like 4. She is not interested in buying daywear or things like that anymore, she has RTW for that.

I mean she bought 6 dresses from the Clochard collection and she bought Gaultier too that season. I don’t remember her in Chanel from 2000 but since it’s her trinity I guess she bought something too.

She touched also on McQueen saying that he was talented but the tortured soul he was, was also visible in his clothes. She felt it was too costumey, quite difficult to wear.

 

[ghostwriter10549]

What’s actually funny is not the resale prices, it’s how consistently the “Homeless” collection proves that fashion’s moral panic is usually just BS. The outrage didn’t erase the work. Time didn’t neutralize it. Instead, the pieces gained value precisely because someone dared to execute an idea so rigorously, both conceptually and technically, that “woke culture” ultimately had nothing it could do about it. When clothes are this well made and this coherent, moral outrage runs out of leverage. Craft outlives condemnation.

Same industry, same noise. The work remains.

 

[brandon J pierre]

But that’s absurd. Go get it done as a HC client and you get it brand new and way cheaper

Insane

 

[Creative]

While I agree with you, you don’t just wake up one morning, go to Dior to have a clochard dress made like that. This is the original so it has a value and considering that it was preserved with museum quality storage, why not.

I was listening to a Podcast by Mouna today. She said that indeed she is selling because she cannot fit them, most of them were in boxes, worn one time or never ever (I assume her Bohan and Ferre since she was married and they are relatively sexy) and she touched on the prices.
She said that it has become super expensive even for her as she likes very special pieces. That back in the day, she used to buy 10 couture looks per year and nowadays it’s like 4. She is not interested in buying daywear or things like that anymore, she has RTW for that.

I mean she bought 6 dresses from the Clochard collection and she bought Gaultier too that season. I don’t remember her in Chanel from 2000 but since it’s her trinity I guess she bought something too.

She touched also on McQueen saying that he was talented but the tortured soul he was, was also visible in his clothes. She felt it was too costumey, quite difficult to wear.

But it was not the original, right? The original must be in the archives. As far as I understood it’s a clients version.

 

[fruitdots]

hehhe Mea Culpa accepted on behalf of VV

adult OF sure you can make a millions and more but her content spread is not huge as like the top earners making 10 million and up.

but its fine one way or another she can afford it and i am cool with it
i don't look down on where the sugar comes from unless its hurting people or animals or environment.

i think its bad *ss she comes from that world and wears couture and has interest in it etc

i dont like the white stocking in show nor on her but what can we do lol the tweed dress is modifided and even not my prefderd look its not the worst couture i seen of chanel its demure ok
must be in the chanel waters these ugly white legs stocking idea :
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yes in dior she looks more relaxed

any ways i love a crossover moment in high fashion this lives rent free in my penthouse brain:
W magazine "Playmates à la Mode," Mario Sorrenti captured a few Playboy centerfolds in the feminine, frilly looks of Nicolas Ghesquière's spring 2001 collection for BALENCIAGA
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And let's be real, sex work is probably one of the most ethical ways of acquiring couture...

 

[MagFan]

I mean she bought 6 dresses from the Clochard collection and she bought Gaultier too that season. I don’t remember her in Chanel from 2000 but since it’s her trinity I guess she bought something too.

5 from Gaultier
+2 Givenchy and 2 Versace
Don't see any Chanel on auctions or on her photos. I think she said somewhere that she cancelled some other orders to buy more from Dior. Cancelled Chanel but bought Versace and Givenchy?? Haha

 

[StylishCynic]

But that’s absurd. Go get it done as a HC client and you get it brand new and way cheaper

Clients can't approach Dior and purchase their pick of any historical Haute Couture dress.

For Dior Haute Couture clients, I believe they have to have spent a certain amount on new Couture collections before they're granted access to purchase archival designs.

It's a strategy to guarantee the new designs are selling and to motivate clients to buy more. I'm sure that there are other complications, such as regional exclusivity per dress and sometimes clients can pay more to ensure there's only 1 sold in the world to them.

There are likely agreements around when exclusivity expires, but it's surely a delicate matter.

 

[PDFSD]

What’s actually funny is not the resale prices, it’s how consistently the “Homeless” collection proves that fashion’s moral panic is usually just BS. The outrage didn’t erase the work. Time didn’t neutralize it. Instead, the pieces gained value precisely because someone dared to execute an idea so rigorously, both conceptually and technically, that “woke culture” ultimately had nothing it could do about it. When clothes are this well made and this coherent, moral outrage runs out of leverage. Craft outlives condemnation.

Same industry, same noise. The work remains.

i dont think thats how it works when critique was released then, also the story was personal to homeless in paris and how he inspiration came about. courtney love worn the dress in that time as well and she was not canceled etc

but that those pieces sold today without drama is because the mass dont know of the auction and dont read the title of the dress and desitized overall audience.

also its an auction of a person not an brand /company so there is nothing much to object against.

the value of he piece like the others where because of the dior JG nostalgia and now more than recognizable dior era sure bit of controversy helped.

but well made clothes has nothing todo with surviving woke ness, being sensitive to less fortunate is not being woke is having compassion.

but fashion is provocation as well without it part of its purpose would be lost as well, its there to question boundaries and also empower people its a push and pull.

its how society works be happy people voice public outrage even if you don't agree, if not we would live in a fully censored society and it goes both ways also for things you would agree about.
right to protest is a basic human right to not be undervalued in our society.

love the courtney diy touch to it its iconic her in this dress is perfection.yet still i can understand the paris outrage then with homeless people in front of the dior store i remember the news piece of it on tv.

now we are used broken expensive balenciaga sneakers and hoodies also inspired a now cult famous homeless man Demna ripped off so many looks from, dont think the world got better for it either.

 

[Caffeine]

HARD TO FOCUS ON COUTURE DETAILS WHEN I SEE THE RED LINE FRONT OF EAR TO THE BACK OF HER EARS FRESH FACELIFT 🫣
at least edit it out WITH SOME FOUNDATION gurl!!!!
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how do you know so much that I don't!

 

[PDFSD]

how do you know so much that I don't!

i just react to what is see lol i see lots of details and patterns it used to be painfully overwhelming now i can manage it better lol
a burden and a gift of being on the spectrum ......see it as a primitive AI lol

 

[couturefan]

There are likely agreements around when exclusivity expires, but it's surely a delicate matter.

Exclusivity usually expires when the client is dead. In the Georgina Rodriguez's Netflix reality show, she goes to Jean Paul Gaultier to a fitting session and the people there give her a JPG haute couture dress and they told her they could finally use that dress because the couture client who bought the dress had recently died.

 

[PDFSD]

Exclusivity usually expires when the client is dead. In the Georgina Rodriguez's Netflix reality show, she goes to Jean Paul Gaultier to a fitting session and the people there give her a JPG haute couture dress and they told her they could finally use that dress because the couture client who bought the dress had recently died.

another reason to not watch things on netflix hehe

 

[Creative]

Clients can't approach Dior and purchase their pick of any historical Haute Couture dress.

For Dior Haute Couture clients, I believe they have to have spent a certain amount on new Couture collections before they're granted access to purchase archival designs.

It's a strategy to guarantee the new designs are selling and to motivate clients to buy more. I'm sure that there are other complications, such as regional exclusivity per dress and sometimes clients can pay more to ensure there's only 1 sold in the world to them.

There are likely agreements around when exclusivity expires, but it's surely a delicate matter.

Not true my dear. At least till 2022.

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

In the video on the fifth slide, she says that she bought the entire Clochard collection… and that no one bought anything from that collection? Or is it just a way of saying that very few pieces were sold?

 

[MagFan]

^ Suzanne Saperstein, Dodie Rosekrans, Susan Newhouse also bought. She wants to add even more value and saying not truth

 

[Melancholybaby]

She bought 10 looks from the collection, only put 6 up for sale in the auction.