11.   He tearfully thanked his parents for their sacrifices, which enabled him to study fashion design and open his own business.

12.   He talked about Venus going to school full-time, expanding her interest in fashion design and perhaps dabbling in the Internet.

13.   Hong Kong, he suggested, could recast itself as a center for Asian fashion design, rather than a manufacturing center.

14.   His fashion designs begin as rough pencil sketches.

15.   I plan on researching digital printing to revolutionize fashion design.

16.   Jay Calderin, an instructor of fashion design at Lasell College in Newton, said the mixing of textures is a key part of future fashion.

17.   Jimmy Newcomer, assistant chairman in fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, says pinks, oranges and reds run rampant this spring.

18.   Literature, fashion design and the visual arts are thriving, and big business is developing a taste for sponsoring culture.

19.   Many have abandoned conventional careers as fashion stylists, editors and decorators to follow their bliss and dabble in fashion design.

20.   Marymount University, which has a department of fashion design and merchandising, defends making Kathie Lee Gifford an honorary doctor of humane letters.