21.   Because the American designers are kings, the onus has been on them to produce megashows over the past few years.

22.   -- Last year marked the first time an American designer --New Yorker Madison Cox -- was selected to exhibit a show garden.

23.   A floating house could be just the place to ride out a storm, according to its American designers.

24.   A vignette of clothes from contemporary American designers is included in the Parsons exhibition, and it shows that the McCardell message is still being heard.

25.   A young spirit also wafts through the collection of the American designer Victor Alfaro, who shows in Milan because an Italian company, Gilmar, produces his line.

26.   About six months ago, a South African businessman, Moosa Mayet, began selling Ralph Lauren Polo shirts under license from the American designer.

27.   All in all, American designers offered women clothes they could wear in the real world, not just on a fantasy island.

28.   But American designers adore them.

29.   But American designers of nuclear arms fought it hard, saying a ban threatened to favor the Soviets if they cheated and surreptitiously pulled ahead of the West.

30.   But American designers study foreign cash to collect ideas for the future, said Hagedorn.