71.   The American designer Mark Hampton has described Mongiardino as an alchemist, a transformer of common materials into noble ones, a brilliant manipulator of emotion through design.

72.   The change is particularly hard on American designers like Bartlett, Jacobs, de la Renta and Michael Kors who design their own collections as well as European lines.

73.   The company hired Dawn Mello from Bergdorf Goodman to oversee operations, and American designer Tom Ford.

74.   The daring fall collection he showed Friday was rich in ideas that propelled him into territory that few American designers have explored.

75.   The Japanese business is crucial to this generation of American designers.

76.   The move by American designers to pre-empt the European fashion calendar by showing fall collections this week is wreaking havoc across the Atlantic.

77.   The powers at LVMH must be turning cartwheels over the showing that another American designer, Michael Kors, turned in his first time at the helm of Celine.

78.   The shopping trip indicated the blossoming of a romance between young Japanese women and a new generation of American designers.

79.   The situation is sure to throw off some American designers.

80.   The truth is, Ms. Legeai could not, if she tried, have picked a more American designer than Kors to lead the house of Celine.