But when the designer did go for color, he had a sure hand.

"I encourage young designers to go off and scare me."

"The major designers go to the fabric shows," she said.

The designer went to bat three times in four days during the shows here, which end tomorrow.

And some designers are going their own way, staying with the kind of clothes that made them famous.

The designer was not going in the back door with a mouth full of pins.

American designers are going all out for pants in their spring collections.

Come and see the new toy you designers are going to have to work on!

"One designer went out of business just before his week," she remembers.