11.   Designers often seemed to be picking easy pieces this season and hoping the audience would supply the big response.

12.   Designers seem to be infatuated with breasts, using see-through fabrics at every turn.

13.   Designers seem to have caught on to the change.

14.   Designers seem sold on sheer, lightweight fabrics and narrow, tubular shapes.

15.   Designers seem to be content with this view.

16.   Designers often seem trapped in mundane references, as if they are all consulting the same five books.

17.   In fact, European designers seemed to have recolonized America, some more successfully than others.

18.   In Paris, where fashion is viewed as art rather than commerce, designers seem a little less likely to monolithicly follow one hot look.

19.   It is that kind of marriage between rugged and civilized that many car designers seem to be searching for this year.

20.   Japanese designers seem to have understood the user interface issues in a way that American designers have not, Seybold said.