At one point Ms d'Argy Smith feared he was going to be sick over her designer jacket.

When alligator pumps can cost as much as a designer jacket, this is not a cheap compulsion.

One of the pockets of her designer jacket held a tiny camera.

Artemis buttoned his designer jacket, pausing at the mirror to straighten his tie.

"This is just one option," one said to me, her designer jacket buttoned close around her.

Molina compliments Coogan's designer jacket but notes that it will make him hot in the 85 degree Los Angeles heat.

Ellie Erdman, who was sporting a designer jacket in a flattering shade of poached peach, said: "It cost the earth.

Then, when a designer jacket alone passed the $1,000 ceiling and the audience for such clothes started to shrink, designers sought salvation in their own secondary lines.

To President Clinton, they're a way to keep public-school students from being shot over a designer jacket.

"We see them teamed with everything from designer jackets to white T-shirts," Mr. Doroff said.