There had been collaborations between dress- and shoemakers: before establishing his Tod's and Hogan labels, Mr. Della Valle had made shoes for many designers, and Manolo Blahnik, the London-based shoe king, continues to have him do so.
Things like Lotus Notes and Microsoft SharePoint are holding us back in the past of what should have been collaboration and communication.
Key has been collaboration with neighbouring countries, mainly Chad, Niger and Cameroon, who have provided troops to help tackle the insurgents.
Their greatest weapon has been collaboration: Valadez helped found a coalition of student groups called Education Not Deportation, which launched a campus organizing campaign.
There has been collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry on supplements in food, but this will align more with the non-patent industry rather than the more-regulated sectors.
Yet with a couple of exceptions, the most inventive have been collaborations involving two or more houses.
This isn't the first time the company has gussied up its bathroom basic; there have been collaborations with Betsey Johnson and Harajuku Lovers, Gwen Stefani's accessories line.
Her best known picture books have been collaborations with illustrator Tony Ross; they manage that complicated writer/illustrator relationship by splitting remuneration and credit exactly in half.
Two recent productions, The Tempest and a staging of Shakespeare's epic poem Venus and Adonis, have been collaborations with London's Little Angel puppet theatre.
There have been collaborations in earlier pop eras, of course - the Stranglers joined the Burundi Drummers at an early Womad festival, Peter Gabriel has worked with the likes of Papa Wemba, and Ginger Baker played with Fela Kuti back in the 70s.
