11.   As the ready-to-wear shows here began winding down, the contrarian Azzedine Alaia was in his atelier above his store on Monday preparing a new line.

12.   As the show began, twilight would gradually fall, a mock skyline of houses ringing the dome beneath the blackening sky.

13.   As the spring fashion shows begin in Italy next week, sexy, mod Gucci designer Tom Ford is clothing celebs including Sharon Stone, Nicole Kidman and Madonna.

14.   As the spring fashion shows begin next week in Italy, Ford knows he should be worried about going from unknown to Flavor of the Moment.

15.   As the show began, Timmons asked each guest to introduce herself and name her favorite basket.

16.   As the show began, lights outside the window evoked first a cold morning, then the warmth of a breaking dawn.

17.   Backstage before his show begins, he wheels around, tucking in a shirt on a model here, tightening a belt there.

18.   Before a show begins, some movie theaters flash a series of slides that ask movie trivia questions and advertise restaurants while music plays in the background.

19.   Before the show begins, both get a touch of Hollywood humiliation.

20.   A new show begins a three-year North American tour soon in Montreal.