Rhoda Cohen's eye for mixing colored fabrics produces surfaces that are both painterly and quilterly.

He also likes to mix luxurious lame or sequined fabrics with gutsy men's-wear woolens.

- into the mix makes the look jell, the same goes for mixing different fabrics, like polished cotton, velveteen, denim and corduroy.

Ms. Weisel's strength is mixing snobbish fabrics with simple ones; she did it beautifully with white cotton tops and organdy skirts.

"We don't like to match things, but to mix textures and fabrics in harmony with each other."

Few designers can mix patterns and fabrics with as sure a hand.

DKNY clothes mix such fabrics as silk prints and suedes, and jeweled sweaters and jeans.

His layered coats and tops were more naive, mixing common and high-tech fabrics, and presumably they are also meant to be worn.

The aim, Mrs. Gerani said, was to "try to mix couture-like fabrics with sporty ones."

Mixing sequin-embroidered and sweatshirt fabrics did not always work, and stretch fabrics were not handled with enough finesse.