Ms. Feng's small home collection is available from her fashion showroom in the garment district.

In 2004, Mary Catanzaro realized after just two weeks that an office-manager job she took with a New York-based fashion showroom was a mistake.

Sergio Valente has fashion showrooms in New York City, and Los Angeles.

Earlier in the week Patricia Black, the director of a fashion showroom in New York, just as determinedly blew winter a raspberry.

The building, designed by Cleverdon and Putzel, was once the home of fashion showrooms and manufacturing lofts.

THE heat in the fashion showrooms this week had editors fanning for dear life and looking for a breath of fresh air.

A new office building at 115 West 39th Street, the first new construction in the garment center in two decades, will also be primarily for fashion showrooms.

Specialized Views Quite a few companies also offer out-of-the-mainstream, "custom" tours of everything from fashion showrooms to obscure shops that are given periodically, based on demand.

Surrounded by fabric and accessory shops, fashion showrooms, and designer studios; one-third of all clothing manufactured in the USA is designed and produced in this neighborhood.

But I did ask myself, 'How can one have a fashion showroom without mirrors?'