Retention Ability Test - Fashion

Respondent No.: ____              Time Interval: 15 minutes                   Topic: Fashion    Score: ______

1. Haute couture is the French term for:
High Sewing or High Dressmaking                         ○ High Dressmaking or High School
○ High Fashion or High Sewing                                    ○ High Fashion or High Design

2. Haute Couture is usually made from high-quality, expensive ______ and _____ with extreme attention to ______ and finished by the most experienced and capable seamstresses, often using time-consuming, hand-executed _________.
                ○ designs, details, form, embroidery                       ○ fabric, sewn, detail, techniques
                ○ designers, brands, worth, details                          ○ labels, ateliers, technique, designs

3. “Haute Couture” is also used loosely to describe all high-fashion custom-fitted clothing, whether it is produced in Paris or in other fashion capitals. Which of the following is not a fashion capital?
                ○ London             ○ Milan                 ○ Tokyo                                ○ Las Vegas

4. It originally referred to Englishman __________________’s work, produced in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century.
                ○ André Leon Talley                                                        ○ Anna Wintour                               
                ○ Charles Frederick Worth                                           ○ Franca Sozzani

5. In France, the term haute couture is protected by law and is defined by ______based in Paris, France.
                ○ Je veux que tu meures de groupe
                ○ Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Paris
                ○ Né le bébé manière
                ○ Département de comptabilité et de gestion

6. To earn the right to call itself a couture house and to use the term haute couture in its advertising and any other way, members of the Chambre syndicale de la haute couture must follow these rules except for one, which one is it?
                ○ Design made-to-order for private clients, with one or more fittings.
                ○ Have a full clothing line of prêt-à-porter.
                ○ Have a workshop (atelier) in Paris that employs at least fifteen people full-time.
                ○ Each season (i.e., twice a year), present a collection to the Paris press, comprising at least                                        thirty-five ○ runs/exits with outfits for both daytime wear and evening wear.

7. French term for ready-to-wear fashion.
            ○ prêt-à-porter                                 ○ prêt-à-se mêler
                ○ prêt-à-marcher                             ○ prêt-à-la mode

8. Which of these fashion houses is not an official member of Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture?
                ○ Jean Paul Gaultier                        ○ Versace
                ○ Givenchy                                         ○ Christian Dior

9. Which of these fashion houses is not a foreign member of Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture?
                ○ Giorgio Armani                              ○ Elie Saab
                ○ Atelier Versace                             ○ Valentino

10. French leadership in European fashion may date from the ______, when the art, architecture, music, and fashions of the French court at Versailles were imitated across Europe
                ○ 18th Century                                    ○ 17th Century
                ○ 19th Century                                    ○ 16th Century









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