TV HOST TO LAUNCH OUTERWEAR LINE.(Mario Valente has created a line for John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted and The John Walsh Show)

Daily News Record, May, 2003 by PALMIERI, JEAN E.

NEW YORK -- It could become America's most-wanted outerwear collection.

Mario Valente, a New York-based importer of Italian outerwear, has created a line for John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted and The John Walsh Show, DNR has learned.

The initial 10-piece John Walsh Collection of leather and suede jackets and cashmere/wool outerwear will be offered to one retailer beginning this fall, according to Ian Selig, principal of Mario Valente, which has been wardrobing the victim's rights advocate for the past five years.

But this is not just another celebrity-endorsed collection, a la Regis Philbin, Selig stressed. Instead, Walsh, who will receive the Milton Margolis Humanitarian Award at the Father's Day luncheon on June 5 in New York,...