71.   The gala, which traditionally takes place outdoors on the Spanish Steps, was to have been opened by the Versace fashion house.

72.   The Italian partners have sold custom-woven cloth to European fashion houses such as Chanel and Armani.

73.   The Henri Bendel store was for decades a prestigious outlet for such haute-couture fashion houses as Chanel, Dior and Balenciaga.

74.   The grandest joined Valesca Dost and Mathias Guerrand-Hermes, an heir to the French fashion house, who lives in New York.

75.   The Italian fashion house Prada Holding abruptly called off its initial public offering on Wednesday, citing poor market conditions.

76.   The new deals will set her well on her way to building a global fashion house, based here but fueled in part with Italian lire.

77.   The remaining defendants include Ferre, the portly, bearded designer who runs a fashion house in Milan in addition to designing for Christian Dior in Paris.

78.   There was no sign on the runway of the kind of brightly colored, gold-buttoned boxy jackets that previously defined the French fashion house.

79.   They have a chance to place their sweaters in important boutiques and fashion houses without betting the ranch on a huge production run.

80.   This is a new development for Wolford, which has long been a supplier to such notable fashion houses as Versace, Armani and Yves Saint-Laurent.