couture fashion valeria rat, senior lecturer at the department of fashion design, faculty of socio-cultural communicationsity, and did it even exist in the republic of belarus during the soviet union? high fashion or haute couture is the art of creating exclusive pieces of clothing, usually manually from materials of the highest quality and with the utmost attention to every detail high fashion is such a special rank. galina meshkova artist fashion designer of the fashion house from 1976 to 1996, candidate of art history, associate professor of the department of arts and crafts and costume of the belarusian state academy of arts. top-class designers work here at the bottom, this is e, such cult personalities in society this courier is a concept, e appeared and at the end of the 19th century it appeared in a haute couture syndicate in paris and was initially associated only with paris. well, today, in principle, from haute couture - it's only paris that haute couture owes its appearance to the english fashion designer charuz frederic ordu, who in 1858 opens his house of war fashion house and is the first t