31.   One of the best is by Mr. Rodriguez, whose first collection under his own name is going into stores now.

32.   Richard Tyler has spawned Lela Rose, who will be introducing her first collection at The Royalton this week.

33.   Scher, although not as important a designer as Bartlett, lived up to the all-but-forgotten promise of his first collections nearly a decade ago.

34.   She went on to say she liked what Elbaz had done in his first collection for the house.

35.   Students intern in New York only after they have completed their first small collection.

36.   That was the case at Maska, where Istvan Francer showed his first collection since joining the house last March.

37.   The development of the first collection, which was shown last January, was hampered by the national strikes that paralyzed Paris.

38.   The first collection, Vera Wang Luxe, will be distributed to a limited number of optometry specialists and is being manufactured in Italy and Japan.

39.   The first collection by Peter Spelopoulos for Cerruti was the equivalent of the cat scrambling up the tree.

40.   The first collection, completed in less than two months, includes sterling-silver rings, bracelets, pendants and belt buckles.