Haute Couture is just getting started in the Chinese fashion industry.

The concept, which comes from the west, emphasizes making clothes for the individual customer, and fine details of needle work.

Sometimes one garment can take up to three hundred hours to make.

Li Dongtian, image designer, said, "Each haute couture piece is one that demands painstakingly artful work of the designers or the creators."

NE Tiger, noted for leather clothes and gowns, is one of the first to bring haute couture to customers in China.