41.   He was the consummate American designer, one of the first to show an appreciation for sportswear and reinvent it for more formal circumstances.

42.   If timing is everything, then American designers are positioned front and center.

43.   If fashion truly mirrors social changes, American designers are reflecting a new attitude in the culture of the country.

44.   In any case, Mrs. Buckley has dragooned Blass and de la Renta -- two of her favorite American designers and oldest friends -- into serving as her co-chairmen.

45.   It has been the lot of American designers to be considered also-rans behind the chic French, the intellectual Japanese and those great apparel industrialists, the Italians.

46.   It has gobbled up the estates of the American designers George Nelson, Harry Bertoia and Alexander Girard, as well.

47.   It was not so long ago that most American designers were virtually unknown around the world.

48.   Jacobs possesses all the ingredients to be among the handful of American designers who years from now will replace Ralph Lauren and those of his generation.

49.   Japanese designers seem to have understood the user interface issues in a way that American designers have not, Seybold said.

50.   Last month, the International Design Conference in Aspen, invited him to make his first presentation to American designers, curators and journalists.