Art work produced by French couturier with a university degree (7)
I believe the answer is:
diorama
'art work' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'by french couturier with a university degree' is the wordplay.
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'french couturier' becomes 'dior' (Christian Dior).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'university degree' becomes 'ma' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a' next to 'ma' is 'ama'.
'dior' put next to 'ama' is 'DIORAMA'.
'produced' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for diorama that I've seen before include "Miniature three- dimensional scene" , "Model with 3-D figures" , "Miniature scene with figures" , "Representation of scene" , "Scenic picture" .)