1.   Before anyone was concerned about which hip British designer was going to take over which French couture house, Martin Margiela was making couture hip.

2.   A year ago, she abruptly left Tocca, the fashion company whose sweet cotton dresses established the Dutch-born Ms. Oudejans as a hip designer.

3.   But the hip young designers who showed resort collections last week see the season another way.

4.   Hip designer Michael Kors combined a boxy sheared mink jacket with a turtleneck and leather trousers and a hooded mink sweatshirt with a miniskirt.

5.   It may also be why a certain smugness now seems to permeate his unyielding style, as hip young designers pay him homage by reviving his ideas.

6.   Next, she picked a hip young designer, an Italian-American called Roberto Menichetti, to dream up clothes that would appeal to young women.

7.   Right now, hip young designers, from Marc Jacobs to Daryl K, are turning the sweat shirt into high fashion.

8.   So with all that attention, the map shirts by Wayne Hemingway, a hip street savvy designer for Red or Dead label, will likely be copied.

9.   The Indian-style interiors he championed are being echoed by hip designers like Muriel Brandolini and Lulu Kwiatkowski.

10.   For hip American designer Lawrence Steele, the step back in time must have been giant, but on the runway it looked effortless.