1.   After the Ungaro show, the couture salon was packed with clients trying on dresses and putting samples on reserve.

2.   Ms. Schilcher modeled the environment after the couture salons of Courreges and Chanel.

3.   Not the chic couture salons of Paris at all.

4.   The couture salon, once a boiseried shrine to air-kissers and society doyennes, now flaunts an MTV edge.

5.   The family moved to Prague, where her grandmother worked as a seamstress and founded a couture salon.

6.   Which makes New York department stores, for lack of local couture salons, a sort of walk-in clinic for customers.