21.   It has, unfortunately for French fashion, never gone away.

22.   It was a coup for French soccer and French fashion at the World Cup championships.

23.   Its decline followed the slide of French fashion generally and the parallel ascent of street influences on the high-fashion runway.

24.   Martin Margiela, Ann Demeulemeester, Jean Colonna and John Galliano were all young, starting out and challenging the French fashion establishment.

25.   Ms. Sitbon is in that important school of designers who are reshaping traditional definitions of French fashion with industrial fabrics and clean sportswear.

26.   Mugler makes a strong case for French fashion in his brilliant cutting and fit.

27.   Not all of the biggest names in French fashion were giving lessons on drumming up publicity for mundane things like handbags and scarves.

28.   Not Jacques Mouclier, the head of the Chambre Syndicale, the governing body of French fashion, where she held the title of honorary president for life.

29.   Nowhere was it more hilarious than at Duke University, where the English department became a hothouse for the newest French fashions.

30.   Patrick Demarchelier, the French fashion photographer, lifts himself from a chair and approaches the camera.