This time around Ms. Kirpal, now 30, bustled around the crowded hall on the first day of the fair, collecting business cards and stuffing them in the suit pocket of an assistant who trailed her.
At last week's opening, I had the chance to talk to talk to NADA Executive Director Heather Hubbs about this year's fair, collecting, and keeping the week's most refreshing event kicking. .
Vintage has, to be fair, collected a Greatest Hits in the form of Amaretto, Apple Cake and Artichokes: The Best of Anna Del Conte, but the truth is, there is no worst.
When the phone-hacking scandal erupted at Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in early July, Vanity Fair collected 20 articles on Mr. Murdoch, his family and their businesses and put them in a $3.99 e-book that went on sale July 29.
The fair collects all things Illinois so everyone in the state can enjoy them, and what's more enjoyable than food on a stick?
And, whether you trawl eBay or visit art fairs, collecting is all about spending time.
At that time, much of Singapore's art scene was limited to art fairs; collecting fine art was a rare pastime for residents.
At first, I just collected postcards, but through going to fairs, I met other like-minded people.
That being said, to be fair, if collecting carts in a parking lot is what you want to do or all you can do, for whatever reason, we need you and you deserve the same dignity as the next person and should be paid a wage that will allow you to live.
The idea for this inaugural sale developed last summer, after Leslie Hindman held a special sale in August of couture items from the collection of the Ebony Fashion Fair show, collected by the late Eunice W. Johnson and consigned to Leslie Hindman by her daughter, Linda Johnson Rice, chairman of Johnson Publishing Company, LLC, which is the publisher of EBONY and JET magazines.
There are hundreds of fair recipes collected in the "Giant Houseparty Cookbook," published by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce in 1981.
