the design and production of expensive and fashionable clothes; these clothes 时装设计制作；时装 a couture evening dress 昂贵时髦的晚礼服 The House of Mattli is expanding from couture into ready-to-wear. 玛特利（House of Mattli）之家正从高级时装扩展到成衣。
Word Origin1920s: French, ‘sewing, dressmaking’.