1.   His first collection took the fashion world by storm, breathing new life into the stuffy world of Parisian hautecouture.

2.   These were the growth of organised and comprehensive diplomatic archives and the publication of the first great printed collections of international treaties.

3.   And Robinson did the same last week with his first collection under his own name.

4.   And it was quite a scramble making the first collection.

5.   And so his first bridal collection will make its debut in Barneys later this month.

6.   Azzedine Alaia, the elusive Paris designer who is notoriously late in showing and shipping his lines, recently showed his first collection in more than two years.

7.   A first collection of stories on a range of relationships from the newest Pulitzer fiction winner.

8.   A first collection under the name of a dead designer is always dicey.

9.   A. It is apparently the first serious photographic collection in the country, and perhaps in the world.

10.   After Montano showed his first collection in Bryant Park last February, retailers from as far off as Toyko began to trickle into his showroom.