Haute Couture is not an industry.
It’s a rare breath of fresh air.
An art that lives by hand, by time, by risk.
Today, it finds itself in tension.
Between heritage and rupture.
Between craftsmanship and the market.
Between silence and spectacle.
Each house reveals a fracture.
Chanel chooses modesty.
Dior, sovereign absence.
Rolland, the dramatic score.
Sorbier, insurrection.
Juana Martin, sacred fervor.
These gestures are not alike.
But they express the same urgency:
preserving the soul.
Haute Couture is not a survival.
It is a threshold.
A place where excellence is not negotiable. An art that doesn’t just follow the times,
but also dares to decipher them.
« Haute Couture doesn’t belong to time: it transcends it and becomes the Eighth Art. »
CHIKH Larbi, for www.the-8th-art.com
Photo: Coco Chanel. Crédit photo: Inconnu.
