When he persuaded the company's owners to let him have a crack at the main collection, in 1997, it was as a trial, and trial it was: Mr. Ghesquiere was fired after his first show.
Indeed, because of the Prado's infamous space limitations, the exhibition is embedded in the museum's main collection, a collection that rests heavily on the treasures accumulated by successive Hapsburg and Bourbon monarchs.
In order of decreasing size, the components of a surface system are the main collection ditch, field ditch, and field drain; and for a subsurface system, main, submain, and lateral conduits from the submain.
Mr. Ghesquiere, who began at Balenciaga in the early 1990's making wedding and widows' dresses for its Japanese licensee, eventually persuaded Groupe Jacques Bogart to give him a shot at designing the main collection.
Thus, within each of these divided areas, the multi-hop collection is deployed as a sub-set to the main collection.
The basic pieces -- T-shirts, tank tops, knits and hoodies -- are adapted from the themes and fabrics of his main collection, though with an easier, sportier feel.
With the BBC move to Salford as a precedent, there is an argument to be made for moving the main collection to Manchester, and splitting bits of the current South Kensington site between the other museums there.
If someone like Stella McCartney were to choose London for her main collection, this would be a huge boost.
For this Valentine's, luxury florist Philippa Craddock has launched a new posy collection separate from her main collection – smaller, hand-tied bunches in two different sizes.
The supplementary material includes additional documentation and an extended discussion about how AGUIA handles the "main collection" and how the user works with this collection when performing a search, insertion or update of data.
