Haute Couture Rules

  1. Design made-to-order for private clients, with one or more fittings.
  2. Have a workshop (atelier) in Paris that employs at least fifteen staff members full-time.
  3. Must have twenty, full-time technical people in at least one workshop (atelier).
  4. Every season, present a collection of at least fifty original designs to the public, both day and evening garments, in January and July of each year.