Next month, Intermix will organize a shopping party to introduce three new clothing and accessories designers.

For several seasons, the only accessories designers showed with their clothes were shoes, or perhaps a pencil-thin belt.

She was already responsible, as accessories designer, for 95 percent of the company's business.

Allison Burns, a young accessories designer in Los Angeles, had a similar experience.

"Ron has such ease about life," said Carlos Falchi, the accessories designer.

Ms. Harris, a representative of accessories designers, knows her boots.

Elizabeth Castelo, 35, an accessories designer, had taken over the corner booth with a gaggle of girlfriends.

Jessica Kagan Cushman is an independent jewelry and accessories designer.

And the accessories designer Kate Spade is also in the process of opening a stand-alone shop.

The company expanded into fashion in 1995, on the advice of a young accessories designer who had attended one of the art exhibitions.