Sentence examples for provocative collections from inspiring English sources

His provocative collections never went anywhere.

Alexander McQueen, the renegade British fashion designer known for producing some of the most provocative collections of the last two decades, was found dead on Thursday morning in his London home, the police there said.

Mr. McQueen, who committed suicide last year, was known for his provocative collections and daring tailoring, and so there were women in full feathered panniers (the socialite Daphne Guinness) and a laser cut neoprene gown with a full train (the model Aimee Mullins), and a guest with a sculpture of a large egg on her head (the Italian editor Anna Dello Russo).

But what an unusual and provocative collection this is.

Hitchens's esophageal cancer inevitably throws a shadow over this spirited, provocative collection, which shows his extraordinary wit and range.

The esophageal cancer that killed Hitchens last December throws a shadow over this provocative collection, one of the Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2011.

His couture is consistently brilliant and daring, right up to the provocative collection he showed in January with models styled to look like Amy Winehouse, barely six months after her death.

But Mr. Han's most vexing challenge comes from a more formidable nemesis: the unseen censors who delete blog posts they deem objectionable and the publishing police who have held up the release of his new magazine, "A Chorus of Solos," a provocative collection of essays and photographs.

From the start, Mr. Lhota and his colleagues in City Hall were repulsed by several pieces in "Sensation," a deliberately provocative collection of about 90 paintings, photographs and sculptures that had arrived in Brooklyn after making its debut, to huge crowds as well as controversy, in London.

The spirit of those breezy times lives on in this amusing and tacitly provocative collection of works by artists who take inspiration from life on the street or take their creative efforts directly onto the streets like the 19th-century flâneurs, or strollers — an idea borrowed from Baudelaire's 1863 essay "The Painter of Modern Life".

This was a provocative collection, full of little surprises, like the way he cut jackets at the neckline — making the shoulders appear strong yet still small — or the athletic shape of a sleeveless black jacquard silk dress with panels of navy at the front and back, and a dainty, unexpected ruffle at the neck.