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The clothes on show at Haute Couture are hand-sewn, hand-embellished and expertly crafted by a fleet of artisanal seamstresses, tailors, pattern cutters and other garment workers in ateliers.—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 7 July 2025 While spending time with Carolina Herrera’s Wes Gordon, one of the seamstresses from the company’s atelier, who is Ukrainian, met the Ukrainian designers, which was emotionally moving, according to Kisla Taylor.—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 25 June 2025 Gordo’s father was a dishwasher and cook; his mother was a seamstress in a factory that used to be across from City Hall.—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025 Instead, the boycott coalesced around Rosa Parks (soprano Jacqueline Echols), a light-skinned seamstress respected by Black and white Montgomery residents alike.—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for seamstress
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