Giuliana Teso embraced the mix of fur with fabrics, straddled outerwear and sportswear, constructed everything as light as a feather, kept shapes easy and uncomplicated, and captured perfectly both of today's hottest fashion fronts -- the luxury of bohemia and sleek performance chic. Mohair was a trendy inclusion as a big cranberry colored fuzzy jacket with fur inside or a simple winter white jacket reversible to winter white nutria lining. Pelts had their own leather sides treated with a napa finish, making fur truly a reversible fabric. Flat persian lamb was interpreted in four different colored sets of outfits with matching coats, that included dresses, skirts and pullover tunics. Sheared beaver looked like shearling when treated leather-out and perforated.

Gabriel Pisani has definitely moved on from its elaborately directional wild-type minks, showing hide-out curly lamb, little burgundy-dyed sheared mink jackets with fox trim, horizontally striped mink with see-through "ajour" lace between pelts, a V- neck pullover cape, and everything was lightweight and unlined.

Gianfranco Ferre Fourrures also was a proponent of napa- finished reversible mink, plus duvet coats trimmed with fur, mohair reversible to rabbit, ajour-spaced mink, a series comfort and performance fabrics mixed with fur, a pullover tunic, a good selection of accessories and even some seal garments.

Solleciti had a great touch for young fur treatments like a little black miniskirt with matching gilet in mole, a choice of vests, a white performance fabric reversible to dark grayish brown squirrel, and a brilliant Elizabethan nod with a long, full, ermine-effect hamster skirt and matching top or a severe broadtail lamb bodice.

Newcomer Cheby, a company from Florence, lent a breath of fresh air to the fair's predominantly dark mink bathrobes with a rainbow of pale color and modern styling. There were duvet coats trimmed with sheared mink or tibetan lamb chubbies in powdery pastel shades of pink, yellow, green, blue and violet.

Italo Cavaggioni's new Cavaggioni by Centropel Home collection was a big draw, filling a void with a product consumers (if email requests to furs.com are any indication) have been demanding but not finding readily available. The collection included a variety of home furnishings made of knit fur or full fur with knit details.

Vito Nacci also jumped on the housewares bandwagon, offering blankets and pillow covers. He embraced the utility chic fashion voice, blending furs with fabrics in sporty shapes in a modern palette of winter white, gray, black and naturals with a sudden shot of orange in a dyed chinchilla. And he included napa-finished reversible mink.