61.   A few of the best-known names in the fashion business including Paris-based Japanese designer Kenzo and Sudanese-born model Alek Wek were among the chaotic influx.

62.   Following the pleas, Steve Madden officials sought to shore up confidence that the fashion shoe business is moving forward.

63.   The decline was smaller than expected, however, because of a solid performance for the Yves Saint Laurent fashion business.

64.   The Guccis had long left the fashion business, however.

65.   In January, they declared the Universe was an unusual blue-green, a to-die-for shade in the fashion business.