51.   Long the world leaders in creating looks for movies and fast-food packaging, American designers shine these days in the invention and development of sports gear.

52.   Miss Lambert, for people not up on such matters, is the nonagenarian fashion press agent whose real achievement was to help turn American designers into personalities.

53.   Now, many upscale American designers, such as Donna Karan and Calvin Klein, are making clothes for kids who really care about what they wear.

54.   Not since Mainbocher has an American designer shown his clothes at the Paris couture, and that was before World War II.

55.   Now Christopher Evans and Victor Wong, two American designers who work in Paris, have come up with the fashion equivalent.

56.   One American designer who owned that market is Galanos.

57.   Perhaps because his style is the most American of the American designers, Tommy Hilfiger still shows in New York.

58.   Perrier regularly furnished textiles to Dior, Balenciaga, Jacques Fath, Jean Patou, Givenchy, Carven and the American designers Pauline Trigere and James Galanos.

59.   Rather than wear the designs of foreign, couturiers, Clinton stays closer to home, opting for American designers.

60.   Ralph Lauren showed an entire white collection, including ethereal georgette dresses, while fellow American designer Oscar de la Renta produced beautiful white lace gowns.