prêt-à-porter

[pret-ah-pawr-tey, -pohr-]

noun

1. ready-to-wear clothing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of prêt-à-porter¹

1955–60; < French: translation of ready-to-wear

Example Sentences

She worked with director Altman again on films including Brewster McCloud, The Player and Pret-a-Porter.

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Now 96, Ms. Stafford worked as a photographer for more than 50 years, in a career that took her to India, Bangladesh, Tunisia, London and Paris, capturing cutting-edge prêt-à-porter fashion; the realities of urban poverty; and the impact of conflict.

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“It takes sort of transgressive phenomena and sort of cultural insurgencies and it skins their hides and leaves the meat of the matter to rot and then turns it into pret-a-porter, off-the-rack fashion/lifestyle choices.”

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The collection of cheating, preening narcissists that compose the designers and editors in “Prêt-à-Porter” in 1994.

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He then moved to Paris in 1996 to become the head of prêt-à-porter design at Guy Laroche.

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