1.   The pair celebrated the news yesterday by parading in the lavish costumes specially designed for them for Dick Whittington at the Empire Theatre.

2.   Show girls weighed down by lavish costumes mime their way enthusiastically through medleys of Thai, Chinese and English songs.

3.   Actors danced in lavish colonial costumes.

4.   But Poles have been buzzing about the three-hour period film filled with battle scenes, lavish costumes and well-known actors.

5.   Directed by Patrice Leconte, it stars Fanny Ardant and Jean Rochefort in lavish costumes.

6.   Meanwhile, visitors can treat themselves to a lavish costume show.

7.   That production featured lavish costumes and designs by Cecil Beaton, a friend of the composer.

8.   The opera required him to dress in lavish medieval costume.

9.   A time of wild excesses, lavish costumes and disguises, the annual carnival season reaches its heady climax on Tuesday with the Mardi Gras celebrations.