Couture clothes last so much longer because so much work goes into them.

Tired of both stuffy high fashion and the poor copies of couture clothes produced by her dressmakers, she decided to design her own.

Couture clothes would be nice, too.

She was no career model but part of a generation of debutante beauties, who were paid only token salaries and showed couture clothes for small, private audiences.

For the photo challenge, the models pose as fugitives of the law in haute couture clothes in a mock crime scene setting alongside other models dressed as law enforcers.