31.   Erich Fayer, the owner of Pierre Balmain, the Paris fashion house de la Renta also designs for, had died.

32.   Fashion houses, architects and industrial designers, buffeted by both the tragedy and the sinking economy, are rethinking the role of irony, luxury and security.

33.   Fashion houses, including Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Mossimo, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan, have all spewed out new designs.

34.   Fashion was the natural choice for Buti, whose mother ran a large fashion house in Italy.

35.   For fashion houses, the metamorphosis of python from ruffian chic to Park Avenue popularity has been an irrefutable hit.

36.   For several years, designers and fashion houses suggested that women wear anything they wanted -- long, short, tight or full.

37.   Frank Olive, a designer of hats for fashion houses, celebrities and the theater, died last Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital.

38.   From there, he joined Irving Serwer Advertising, a fashion house, as an account executive.

39.   Gucci has the added cachet of being the most talked about fashion house.

40.   He and many of his counterparts at other fashion houses have long toiled in obscurity, their contributions recognized only by close associates and a handful of fashion insiders.