1.   But the hip young designers who showed resort collections last week see the season another way.

2.   Designers often use resort collections as a testing ground for ideas.

3.   He showed a strong resort collection of pared-down styles in summery fabrics like eyelet, pique, cotton, gazar and silk shantung.

4.   His resort collection, shown in a sunny all-white loft in SoHo, was entirely in white.

5.   His resort collections in the past have focused on soft dresses and skirts in silky fabrics to wear with easy loose sweaters.

6.   Herrera showed up at Saks smartly turned out in a shirt dress from her resort collection, Manolo Blahnik slingbacks, pearl earrings and a wristful of gold bangles.

7.   However, there is more to the resort collections than summery clothes.

8.   Klein experimented with long loose dresses in his resort collection last year and carried the idea into spring.

9.   So the designers who cater to them have turned their resort collections into an indecisive mixture of summery resort and springlike citified clothes.

10.   The European designers who showed resort collections last month concentrated mainly on citified styles in lightweight fabrics for midwinter shoppers who might want to perk up their wardrobes.