1.   Armani has been filling their closets for some time, said Wilfredo Rosado, the fashion director for the designer.

2.   Army-fatigue green and khaki stand ready as the next look, says Anne Slowey, fashion news director of Elle.

3.   At Barneys New York, Bonnie Pressman, the fashion director, said that many designers were supplying underpinnings.

4.   At Venture stores, they are also used somewhat as border print, says fashion director Gregory Blow.

5.   Barneys New York started selling fall evening wear at trunk shows last June, said Bonnie Pressman, its fashion director.

6.   Bonnie Pressman, an executive vice president and the fashion director of Barneys New York, thinks that designers who showed long skirts were influenced by haute couture.

7.   A single pink sweater caught the eye of Neiman Marcus fashion director Joan Kaner, who wanted to see more of that kind of thing on the Herrera runway.

8.   But both actually stayed to see the fashions, as did Sasha Charnin Morrison, fashion market director at Allure magazine.

9.   But it seemed as if not only designers, but also their own fashion directors were being made obsolete by retailers.

10.   Carol Steele, Northwest fashion director for Nordstrom, hedges.