What French term, meaning 'high dressmaking', refers internationally to expensive designer clothing, typically of leading fashion houses?
Haute couture Haute couture Haute couture (; ; French for "high sewing" or "high dressmaking" or "high fashion") is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. "Haute couture" is high-end fashion that is constructed by hand from start to finish, made from high-quality, expensive, often unusual fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable sewers - often using time-consuming, hand-executed techniques. "Couture" translates literally from French as "dressmaking" but may also refer to fashion, sewing, or needlework and is also used as a common abbreviation of "haute couture" and refers to the same thing in
Barbie Fashion Designer Barbie Fashion Designer Barbie Fashion Designer is a dress-up computer game developed by Digital Domain and published by Mattel Media for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in 1996. The game allows players to design clothing and style outfits. Players can then print off their designs and create clothing for their real-world Barbie dolls. "Barbie Fashion Designer" was the first commercially successful video game made for girls . After its success, many other girl games would be made, leading to the girls' games movement. Players can design clothing and outfits through selecting different themes, clothing, colors, and patterns from various menus.