sentences:  Before the former draper set up his "maison couture" (fashion house) in Paris, clothing design and creation was handled by largely anonymous seamstresses, and high fashion descended from that worn at royal courts.Worth's success was such that he was able to dictate to his customers what they should wear, instead of following their lead as earlier dressmakers had done.The term "couturier" was in fact first created in order to describe him.