high fashion

noun

1

: high style

2

: haute couture

Examples of high fashion in a Sentence

boutiques that sell high fashion to the very wealthy

Recent Examples on the Web

For Osaka, blending high fashion into her day job is both a crucial form of self-expression and homage to her predecessors such as Venus and Serena Williams, who caused a stir and defined an era of tennis fashion with their boundary pushing designs. —Ava Wallace, New York Times, 28 May 2026

Developed more than a decade ago, the Xpandable™ line of high fashion rings, eternity rings and bracelets embodies proprietary PICCHIOTTI problem-solving technologies. —Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026

Rather than treating streetwear as separate from high fashion, Abloh brought the two together to create something dynamic. —Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 26 May 2026

The psychological and aesthetic core of the story’s premise is the exchange between high fashion and the streets, yet Riley offers no sense of what the boosters achieve, socially or stylistically, with their redistribution of luxury goods. —Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1870, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for high fashion

• compassion
• ashen
• passion
• ration
• internation