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prada bags men to the event to honor the Toledo company. Mr. Simon holds the license to use the Pink Panther in his designs.Since the late 1970s, Mr. Simon and his design team, now a total of about 18 people have introduced no fewer than 14 collections each year for women and girls, each with as many as 100 styles.So what makes a Michael Simon sweater so popular?"There's humor in the sweaters. They're fresh and wholesome and when wearing a piece you have to be a bit engaging," explains Mr. Simon, who designs in many size ranges."I've been wearing them for almost 18 years. I wear the fun ones during storytime with my children the kids love the details," said Mattie W. Taylor, an educator at Martin Luther King, Jr., Elementary School. She wore Mr. Simon's ladybug and insect themed sweater to the trunk show.Northwest Airlines flight attendant Betty Fretti said she first discovered the designer's cardigans about three years ago and has been hooked ever since."They're fun and colorful and everywhere I go people always stop me and ask, Where did you get that sweater?'" said Ms. Fretti, who added several holiday themed designs to her collection that day.Simon's rags to riches story reads like a classic New York novel. The saga begins in 1976 when he was living in a tiny studio apartment in the East Village, struggling to be creative and pay the rent. He invested most of his savings in a hand loom, which he says took up most of the space in his cramped digs."I used to keep my neighbors up with the sounds of working on the loom at all hours of the night. I know they were wondering, What's going on in there?'" said Mr. Simon.He also was studying ballet. When he tired of dancing for regional companies, he turned to fanciful sweater design."I learned how to make leggings for dancers on the loom. I knit leggings for another dancer who had a couple of machines. He was into leggings and I started making sweaters," he explained."It was just me making sweaters, then five people, doing everything ourselves on handlooms, to 40 people working out of factories in Brooklyn, to taking it overseas," Mr. Simon said of his company's progress.Today, his company's self named divisions include ladies