11.   French fashion houses, under duress, continue to molt, casting off traditional designers and replacing them with those picked from the avant-garde.

12.   French fashion may be demode, having ceded domination to sportswear designers.

13.   Foreign policy paradigms today are a lot like French fashion.

14.   He was twice named young designer of the year by a French fashion organization.

15.   Huppert plays a French fashion executive who falls for the slinky young package played by Vincent Martinez.

16.   In yet another picture, a fairy wears an evening gown modeled on French fashions of that year, the only recorded instance of fairies reading Vogue.

17.   Increasingly, the future of French fashion houses lies in striking global alliances.

18.   Instead, she helped spur on an industry of domestic designers who learned to knock off and mass produce French fashions.

19.   It could be argued that the same romantic vision that made Dior the savior of French fashion after World War II is now killing it.

20.   It was all encouraging enough for Small to think of applying to that grand governing body of French fashion, the Chambre Syndicale du Pret-a-Porter.