11.   French designer Emanuel Ungaro always uses sizzling flower patterns mixed audaciously with other prints.

12.   French designers have remained obtuse about everything but one issue, which is making women beautiful at any cost, a practice Galliano defends.

13.   French interior designers embraced the mirror, and used it in a number of innovative ways to enhance a design scheme.

14.   French designer Marc Audibet said he worked at Prada just as the family-owned luggage firm was gaining fame for rtw and setting up its design teams.

15.   French designers continue to be marginalized in their own country.

16.   Givenchy and other French designers have the runways of Paris.

17.   French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier did frightening cone-shaped bras.

18.   If the French designer Gabrielle Chanel liberated women from stays and long dresses, it was Armani who offered them professional fashion equality without bending their gender.

19.   It looks as contemporary as the latest beds by the French designer Philippe Starck, which have bedside tables attached.

20.   John Widdicomb, the oldest furniture manufacturer in the United States, teamed with leading French interior designer Jacques Grange to create a new collection.