Buy Now {7} Diptyque LE REdouté: From £48 £555 for the porcelain pot), Selfridges Diptyque's new 34 Collection sums up why they're considered one of the best in the business – the intense scent is a heady and rich mix of cloves, rose and amber, which smells like an incense filled church.
In the 16th and 17th centuries indivisibles in this sense were used in the calculation of areas and volumes of curvilinear figures, a surface or volume being thought of as a collection, or sum, of linear, or planar indivisibles respectively.
Vivienne Westwood, whose career has spanned the epoch from bra burning to girly clothes, sent out a witty and wearable collection that summed up the man/woman thing — and not just because her female models had drawn-on moustaches.
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She says, "that film and that collection firstly sums up the cyclical nature fashion has had that 1997 film is relevant to Raf Simons today because as a piece of art it captures the manic highs and euphoric bonding experiences of youth that sum up the themes that are particularly important to me in the show".
The hero of Geoff Nicholson's 1994 novel "Hunters and Gatherers," which is about people and their collections, neatly sums up the prevailing view when he calls them "deeply inadequate human beings, compensating for a lack of personality, intelligence or love... a bunch of unsocial dullards: shy, oafish, unhip".
The collection seems to sum them up wonderfully, mixing amusing numbers about hangovers and nagging partners with tear-jerking ballads about working-class life in Edmonton, all of which sound surprisingly fresh.
Backstage, the designer said he saw this ready-to-wear collection as the sum of a three-part vision, first expressed in the summer in couture and menswear, and embracing "Arabic influences and Roman couture".
But such accounts seem to permit borderline cases, in which it's not clear whether a certain collection has a sum.
